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

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

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

Hay, Colin

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bible

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Brown, Les

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Francis Thompson

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Thomas, John M.

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Guideposts

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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

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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