Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Peter The Great

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mason, John L.

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

Merikare

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mohammed

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aristotle

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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is our destiny.

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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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