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

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

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

Mohammed

13.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

14.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

17.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Francis Thompson

31.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

32.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Hall, Manly

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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