Motivational Quotes

Character

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Mohammed

10.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Karr, Alphonse

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius