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

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Michener, James A.

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mason, John L.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.