Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Best Quotes about Character

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Collins, Marva

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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 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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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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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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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.