Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Voltaire

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Proverb

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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

17.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

18.

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

Confucius

19.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

22.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

23.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

26.

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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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

28.

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

Buddha

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

33.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

34.

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

Brown, Les

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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

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

41.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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.

45.

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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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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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.