Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hall, Manly

Best Quotes about Character

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

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mason, John L.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Solon

12.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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.

Boardman, George D.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

Aristotle

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

30.

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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Michener, James A.

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Seneca

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Guideposts

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence