Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Collins, Marva

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Freeman, Robert

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

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Bible

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua