Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Mohammed

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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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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Royal, Darrell

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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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.

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry