Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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.

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.

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

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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Royal, Darrell

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Proverb

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Guideposts

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