Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Bible

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Proverb

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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Michener, James A.

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Guideposts

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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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

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David