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

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

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

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

Solon

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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 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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Freeman, Robert

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James A. Froude

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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