Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

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

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

Hay, Colin

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

Hall, Manly

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Mason, John L.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Mohammed

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Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Guideposts

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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'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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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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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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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