Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Character

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

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.

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

Solon

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

Seneca

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

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Mason, John L.

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

Mohammed

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collins, Marva

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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.

Marie Leneru

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Guideposts

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle