Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Joan Didion

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

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

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.

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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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.

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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

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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

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

Solon

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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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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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

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Nathaniel Emmons

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hall, Manly

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John