Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Peter The Great

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Thomas, John M.

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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