Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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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

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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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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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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Joan Didion

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

Horace

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Mohammed

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

Proverb

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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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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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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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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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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