Motivational Quotes

Character

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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.

Marie Leneru

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Voltaire

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Mohammed

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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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

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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