Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Lubbock, Sir John

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Freeman, Robert

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.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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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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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Hay, Colin

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Hall, Manly

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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