Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Euripides

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Proverb

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Francis Thompson

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Gill, Vince

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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.

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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