Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about 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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Aristotle

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

10.

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.

11.

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

Proverb

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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

Thurber, James

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

18.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell