Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Character

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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 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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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

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Mohammed

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell