Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Guideposts

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Collins, Marva

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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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 is a victory, not a gift.

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

Hall, Manly

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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