Motivational Quotes

Character

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Maritain, Jacques

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Peter The Great

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Aristotle

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

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Confucius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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