Motivational Quotes

Character

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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Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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.

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

Joan Didion

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Euripides

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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

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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

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Solon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Voltaire

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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