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

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

Guideposts

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Solon

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Freeman, Robert

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

20.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

34.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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