Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Horace

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Proverb

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

12.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

13.

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

Mohammed

14.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

15.

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.

16.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

17.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

24.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

25.

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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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

27.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

28.

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

29.

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

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

37.

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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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

40.

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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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