Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Gill, Vince

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

Thomas, John M.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Hall, Manly

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

Francis Thompson

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Seneca

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Aristotle

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur