Motivational Quotes

Character

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

- Thomas, John M.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Royal, Darrell

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Joan Didion

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

11.

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

Euripides

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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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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Estrange, L.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Marva

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

35.

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

Francis Thompson

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Horace

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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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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