Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

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

Estrange, L.

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

Shakespeare, William

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 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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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michener, James A.

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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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

James A. Froude

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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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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mohammed

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

Mason, John L.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Guideposts

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas