Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

James A. Froude

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

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

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.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Aristotle

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Michener, James A.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Hay, Colin

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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 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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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mohammed