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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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.

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

Buddha

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

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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.

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio