Motivational Quotes

Character

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Character

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

Proverb

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

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.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Hall, Manly

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

11.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mohammed

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Howell, Harry

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

Seneca

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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.

22.

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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

32.

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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Francis Thompson

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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

44.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.