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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Euripides

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.