Motivational Quotes

Character

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Guideposts

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

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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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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hermann Hesse

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Solon

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

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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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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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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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya