Motivational Quotes

Character

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Character

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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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

3.

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

4.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

5.

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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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

8.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

9.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

13.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hermann Hesse

18.

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

Peter The Great

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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.

22.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

25.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

26.

Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

27.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

31.

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

Guideposts

32.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

33.

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

Baldwin, Faith

34.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

38.

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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

40.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

41.

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

Brown, Les

42.

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

Mohammed

43.

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

Bible

44.

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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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.