Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

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

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mason, John L.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Guideposts

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Collins, Marva

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

31.

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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Michener, James A.

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Richards, Mary Caroline