Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John 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

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Francis Thompson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michener, James A.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Guideposts

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Hermann Hesse

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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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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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

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

Voltaire

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

Confucius

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.