Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Joan Didion

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Merikare

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Guideposts

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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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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 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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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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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 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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus