Motivational Quotes

Character

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Maritain, Jacques

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Hay, Colin

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Euripides

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Solon

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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 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 all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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