Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hall, Manly

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Confucius

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Solon

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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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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

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

James A. Froude

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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 like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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.