Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Best Quotes about Character

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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.

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

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

Horace

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Royal, Darrell

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Guideposts

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Brown, Les

25.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Proverb

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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 part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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 like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Michener, James A.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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