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

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Hay, Colin

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

Collins, Marva

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

11.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

12.

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

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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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 you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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

Freeman, Robert

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

29.

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.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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