Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

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

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Thomas, John M.

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Estrange, L.

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

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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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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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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