Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Maritain, Jacques

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Shakespeare, William

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Aristotle

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

Michener, James A.

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

Horace