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

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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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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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Leneru, Marie

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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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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marie Leneru

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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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

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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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

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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.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Aristotle