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

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

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bible

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Freeman, Robert

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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 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

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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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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

34.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Nathaniel Emmons