Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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.

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

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Hay, Colin

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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Proverb

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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

Michener, James A.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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