Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Estrange, L.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Hermann Hesse

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon