Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

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

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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

Mohammed

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Voltaire

25.

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

Bible

26.

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.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

34.

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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Mason, John L.

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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