Motivational Quotes

Character

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Buddha

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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 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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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Horace

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo