Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Proverb

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Michener, James A.

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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.

33.

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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Collins, Marva

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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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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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.