Motivational Quotes

Character

A rich man has no need of character.

- Proverb, Hebrew

Best Quotes about Character

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Guideposts

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Horace

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

Seneca

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson