Motivational Quotes

Character

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Character

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hall, Manly

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michener, James A.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Proverb, Chinese

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Mohammed

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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

43.

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.

44.

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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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Richter, Jean Paul