Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

Merikare

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Brown, Les

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Thoreau, Henry David