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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Hall, Manly

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.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Thurber, James

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

21.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.