Motivational Quotes

Character

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Character

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Reagan, Ronald

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Collins, Marva

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

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hay, Colin

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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

Guideposts

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

Richter, Jean Paul