Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

James A. Froude

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Voltaire

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Merikare

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry