Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Mohammed

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Maritain, Jacques

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Solon

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hay, Colin

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

Euripides

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

Mason, John L.

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

Collins, Marva

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt