Motivational Quotes

Character

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

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.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Horace

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Confucius

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John