Motivational Quotes

Character

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

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

Francis Thompson

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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.

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

Horace

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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