Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Bible

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

Mohammed

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

Collins, Marva

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Guideposts

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Seneca

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.