Motivational Quotes

Character

A rich man has no need of character.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Character

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

Joan Didion

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Karr, Alphonse

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Voltaire

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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.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Seneca

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Hermann Hesse