Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

10.

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

Proverb

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

12.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

23.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

25.

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

26.

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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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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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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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

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

33.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Peter The Great

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Shakespeare, William