Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Best Quotes about Character

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Petrarch, Francesco

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

12.

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

Estrange, L.

13.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

15.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

23.

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

24.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

25.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

26.

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

27.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

28.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Hay, Colin

30.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

31.

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

32.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

33.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

34.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

36.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

37.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

38.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

39.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

40.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

41.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

44.

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

45.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

47.

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

Mohammed

48.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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