Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Michener, James A.

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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

Mohammed

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Guideposts

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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