Motivational Quotes

Character

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

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

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Chesterfield, Lord

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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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

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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Karr, Alphonse

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Collins, Marva

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Guideposts

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

Michener, James A.

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

Estrange, L.

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

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.