Motivational Quotes

Character

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

James A. Froude

Character is a victory, not a gift.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

10.

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

11.

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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

13.

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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

22.

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

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

27.

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.

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Taylor, Bayard

39.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

46.

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

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver