Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Guideposts

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Horace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Mason, John L.

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

Mohammed

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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 three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.