Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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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

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.

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

Hall, Manly

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

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.

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

Voltaire

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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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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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Euripides

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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 cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frankfurter, Felix