Motivational Quotes

Character

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Marva

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Estrange, L.

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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 is a victory, not a gift.

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

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

Guideposts

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Seneca

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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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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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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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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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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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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Mason, John L.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hermann Hesse

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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.

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo