Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Lippmann, Walter

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mohammed

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Francis Thompson

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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.