Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mason, John L.

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.