Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mason, John L.

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mohammed

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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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.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline