Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Gill, Vince

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Collins, Marva

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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