Motivational Quotes

Character

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Euripides

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

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

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.

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

Guideposts

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Mason, John L.

15.

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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

31.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

40.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Bible

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Reagan, Ronald

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.