Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Character

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Francis Thompson

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

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

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Proverb

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Solon

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Thoreau, Henry David