Motivational Quotes

Character

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Character

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Francis Thompson

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Proverb

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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]