Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Frankfurter, Felix

Best Quotes about Character

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

Aristotle

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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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

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

Bible

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

Hay, Colin

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

Seneca

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert