Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Character

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Aristotle

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

Buddha

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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