Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Brown, Les

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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.

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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Francis Thompson

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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.

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

Mohammed

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

Hall, Manly

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman