Motivational Quotes

Character

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Character

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

Bible

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Hay, Colin

16.

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

Mohammed

17.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

18.

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

19.

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

Merikare

20.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

21.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

22.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

23.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

24.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

25.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

26.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

27.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

28.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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

40.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Freeman, Robert

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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