Motivational Quotes

Character

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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Best Quotes about Character

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

Shakespeare, William

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Brown, Les

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Aristotle

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

Peter The Great

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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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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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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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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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Solon

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

29.

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 is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Guideposts

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Mason, John L.

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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.

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Seneca

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.