Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Solon

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

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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.

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

Guideposts

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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 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

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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.