Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Guideposts

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Voltaire

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Hall, Manly

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Seneca