Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Marie Leneru

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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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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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Estrange, L.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Merikare

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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