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

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

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.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Estrange, L.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Merikare

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Mason, John L.

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

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

Peter The Great

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Guideposts

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

Thurber, James

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Brown, Les

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mohammed

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Richter, Jean Paul