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

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

Reagan, Ronald

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Francis Thompson

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Mason, John L.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Joan Didion

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.