Motivational Quotes

Character

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

- Nathaniel Emmons

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mason, John L.

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

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Confucius

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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