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

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.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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

Merikare

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hay, Colin

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mohammed

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Euripides

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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese