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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Confucius

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

Proverb

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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'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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solon

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Bible

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.