Motivational Quotes

Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Character

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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.

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Seneca

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

Collins, Marva

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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