Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Confucius

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Collins, Marva

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hay, Colin

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.