Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Aristotle

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Merikare

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

James A. Froude

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mohammed

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

Mason, John L.

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami