Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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.

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

Collins, Marva

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.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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.

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

10.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

11.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

18.

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

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

22.

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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Proverb

31.

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.

32.

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

33.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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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

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

49.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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