Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Thomas, John M.

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

10.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

11.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

12.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

13.

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

Solon

14.

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

15.

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

Crisp, Quentin

16.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

17.

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

Nathaniel Emmons

18.

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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.

20.

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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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.

22.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

24.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

25.

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

26.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

29.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Baldwin, Faith

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

Hall, Manly

34.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

39.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

42.

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

Howell, Harry

43.

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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

45.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

46.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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