Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

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

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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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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Royal, Darrell

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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 formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.