Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Howell, Harry

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

Thurber, James

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Michener, James A.

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Euripides

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

Guideposts

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

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 three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Horace

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