Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Buddha

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

10.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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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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

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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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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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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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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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 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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Bible

29.

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

Merikare

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Seneca

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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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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Collins, Marva

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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