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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Howell, Harry

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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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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

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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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.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Richter, Jean Paul