Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

10.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

12.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

13.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

14.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

15.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

16.

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

Gill, Vince

17.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

18.

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

Thomas, John M.

19.

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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.

21.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

22.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

24.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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

30.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

33.

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

34.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

35.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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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.

41.

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

45.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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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.