Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bisset, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb, Chinese

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Voltaire

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

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.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mohammed

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Aristotle

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Guideposts

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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 hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Confucius

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Freeman, Robert