Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is victory organized.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Character

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Voltaire

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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Guideposts

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

Mohammed

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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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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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Collins, Marva

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Estrange, L.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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.

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.