Motivational Quotes

Character

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Euripides

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Guideposts

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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 is a victory, not a gift.

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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

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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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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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Solon

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Horace

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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 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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard