Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Euripides

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Joan Didion

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Buddha

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

Collins, Marva

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Hay, Colin

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

Voltaire

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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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

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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