Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

Character is a victory, not a gift.

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Proverb

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Brown, Les

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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