Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Character

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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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.

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

Hermann Hesse

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

Nathaniel Emmons