Motivational Quotes

Character

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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.

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

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

Michener, James A.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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 stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Solon

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

Thomas, John M.

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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

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hermann Hesse

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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