Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Francis Thompson

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Mohammed

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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

Hay, Colin

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