Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James A. Froude

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Francis, Clarence

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.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Marva

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Guideposts

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

Mohammed

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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