Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Character

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Estrange, L.

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

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Confucius

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

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Collins, Marva

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

Solon

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

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

Euripides

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

29.

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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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