Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Collins, Marva

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Horace

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Hall, Manly

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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.

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Hay, Colin

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

Guideposts

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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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