Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

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

Voltaire

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Hall, Manly

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Brown, Les

10.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

11.

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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.

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Peter The Great

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

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

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

Mohammed

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

Crisp, Quentin

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

45.

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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.