Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Francis Thompson

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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

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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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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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