Motivational Quotes

Character

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Character

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

Horace

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

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mason, John L.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Mohammed

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

39.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

40.

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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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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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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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Hall, Manly

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo