Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Guideposts

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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 character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Merikare

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Shakespeare, William

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Aristotle

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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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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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Joan Didion

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Hay, Colin

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

Lubbock, Sir John