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

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

Estrange, L.

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.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

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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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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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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

17.

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

Voltaire

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

29.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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

31.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Merikare

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

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Hermann Hesse