Motivational Quotes

Character

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gill, Vince

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lippmann, Walter

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Mason, John L.

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Hermann Hesse

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Joan Didion

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Guideposts

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.