Motivational Quotes

Character

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Proverb

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Aristotle

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Michener, James A.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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

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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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