Motivational Quotes

Character

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hay, Colin

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Frankfurter, Felix

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

10.

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 to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

25.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

28.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Solon

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

Bible

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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.

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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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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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

49.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya