Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Les

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Hay, Colin

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Bible

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Estrange, L.

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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

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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Proverb

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De