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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Buddha

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Estrange, L.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

10.

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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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Solon

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Elmer G. Letterman