Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Voltaire

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Shakespeare, William

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peter The Great

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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