Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is simply habit long continued.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

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.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Estrange, 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 is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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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.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Horace

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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.

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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