Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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

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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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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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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Manly

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

Mason, John L.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Joan Didion

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.