Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hall, Manly

Best Quotes about Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Confucius

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Francis Thompson

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

Horace

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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