Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Character

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Buddha

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.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

12.

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.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

15.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17.

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

Mohammed

18.

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

19.

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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Collins, Marva

22.

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

Marie Leneru

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

30.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

31.

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.

32.

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

33.

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

Merikare

34.

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.

35.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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.

37.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Voltaire

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Howell, Harry

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

46.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, Chinese