Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

Proverb

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

10.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

11.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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

19.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Shakespeare, William

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

22.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Solon

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Royal, Darrell

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Freeman, Robert

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

39.

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

44.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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

Brown, Les