Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Solon

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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

Hall, Manly

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Mohammed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Freeman, Robert

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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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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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.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.