Motivational Quotes

Character

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Character

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

Richter, Jean Paul

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Chesterfield, Lord

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

Hall, Manly

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

Gill, Vince

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Solon

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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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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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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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