Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Chambers, Oswald

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Estrange, L.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seneca

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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