Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Brown, Les

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Collins, Marva

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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

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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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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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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