Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Guideposts

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Aristotle

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Michener, James A.

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Peter The Great

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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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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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von