Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Guideposts

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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 can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.