Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Petrarch, Francesco

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joan Didion

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Mason, John L.

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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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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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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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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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