Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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 matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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 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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

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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

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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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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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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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.