Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Character

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Peter The Great

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Guideposts

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Hall, Manly

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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.

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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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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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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Collins, Marva

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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

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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

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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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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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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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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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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 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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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