Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mason, John L.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Guideposts

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Proverb

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

25.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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

Voltaire

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)