Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Merikare

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

Mohammed

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

Crisp, Quentin

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.

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

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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

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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Michener, James A.

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.