Motivational Quotes

Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

- Gardner, Ava

Best Quotes about Character

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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.

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.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.