Motivational Quotes

Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Solon

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Mohammed

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Guideposts

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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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