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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

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

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Michener, James A.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Bible

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Proverb

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Hall, Manly

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William