Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hermann Hesse

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Joan Didion

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

James A. Froude

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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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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character development is the aim of education.