Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gill, Vince

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Aristotle

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Hay, Colin

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Merikare

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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Reagan, Ronald

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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