Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Joan Didion

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Horace

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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

Michener, James A.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baldwin, Faith

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur