Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thackeray, William M.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mason, John L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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

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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 superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Brown, Les

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michener, James A.

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

30.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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 isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.