Motivational Quotes

Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chambers, Oswald

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Baldwin, Faith

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.

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

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

Howell, Harry

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Estrange, L.

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Proverb

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bible

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver