Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

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.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Mason, John L.

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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

22.

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

Bible

23.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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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.

26.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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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.

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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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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic