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

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Mohammed

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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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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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Mason, John L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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.

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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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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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