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

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John 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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Guideposts

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Francis Thompson

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

Merikare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Buddha