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

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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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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.

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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

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

Proverb

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

Estrange, L.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

28.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

33.

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

34.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

40.

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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Hay, Colin

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.