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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Thurber, James

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

Freeman, Robert

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

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

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

17.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collins, Marva

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Hay, Colin

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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 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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Estrange, L.

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

Guideposts

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

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.