Motivational Quotes

Character

Integrity has no need of rules.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

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

Merikare

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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

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

Voltaire

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

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Freeman, Robert

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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.