Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Freeman, Robert

Best Quotes about Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Aristotle

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.

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Solon

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Buddha

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