Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Character

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Freeman, Robert

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Guideposts

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thurber, James

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Hall, Manly

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Hay, Colin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince