Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Royal, Darrell

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Solon

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Mohammed

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

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur