Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Hall, Manly

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mason, John L.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Thomas, John M.

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