Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

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

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Freeman, Robert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mohammed

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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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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Lippmann, Walter

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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