Motivational Quotes

Character

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

Aristotle

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Howell, Harry

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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 character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Freeman, Robert

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg