Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Elihu Burritt

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Aristotle

10.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

11.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Petrarch, Francesco

16.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

23.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

25.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

26.

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

27.

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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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.

29.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Estrange, L.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

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

Thurber, James

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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

42.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

43.

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

44.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb

47.

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

Confucius

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch