Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Baldwin, Faith

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Horace

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Estrange, L.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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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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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mohammed

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

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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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.