Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brown, Les

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hall, Manly

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Joan Didion

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Greeley, Horace

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.