Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Francis Thompson

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

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

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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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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Seneca

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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

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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

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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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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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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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