Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

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.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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.

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

Hay, Colin

10.

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

12.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

17.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

18.

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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

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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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.

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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 a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lubbock, Sir John

32.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

36.

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

Guideposts

37.

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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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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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

45.

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

Horace

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

48.

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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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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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.