Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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.

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

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

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Guideposts

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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

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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

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

Proverb

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Richter, Jean Paul