Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Thoreau, Henry David

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Hall, Manly

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James A. Froude

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Francis Thompson

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Collins, Marva

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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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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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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

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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.

Marie Leneru

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Guideposts

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus