Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Estrange, L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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 good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Voltaire

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Mason, John L.

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

32.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Aristotle

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Confucius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van