Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Mohammed

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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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.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Proverb

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Estrange, L.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Michener, James A.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.