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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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.

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elihu Burritt

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

Estrange, L.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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

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

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Horace

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Thoreau, Henry David