Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Euripides

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

Brown, Les

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Aristotle

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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.

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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

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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hay, Colin

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

Solon

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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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

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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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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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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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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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 made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Voltaire

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

Estrange, L.

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.