Motivational Quotes

Character

You must look into people, as well as at them.

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Maritain, Jacques

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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.

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

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

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

Bible

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

Hay, Colin

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hall, Manly

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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 part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Guideposts

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.