Motivational Quotes

Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Estrange, L.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Frankfurter, Felix

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joan Didion

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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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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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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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 depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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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

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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

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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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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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.