Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Character

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

Joan Didion

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Solon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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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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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.

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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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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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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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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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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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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.