Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hay, Colin

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Hall, Manly

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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.

11.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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.

17.

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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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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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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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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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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

32.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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.

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Solon

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great