Motivational Quotes

Character

You must look into people, as well as at them.

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Character

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.