Motivational Quotes

Character

A man's character is his fate.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Character

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hay, Colin

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Bible

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Buddha

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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