Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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.

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James A. Froude

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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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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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William