Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about 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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aristotle

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Mohammed

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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.