Motivational Quotes

Character

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Leneru, Marie

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Estrange, L.

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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

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

Michener, James A.

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

32.

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

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

Guideposts

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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 measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius