Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Character

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

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

Hall, Manly

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

Proverb

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

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

Aristotle

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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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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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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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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Guideposts

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

Freeman, Robert

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Voltaire

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

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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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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