Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Solon

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.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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.

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Disraeli, Benjamin