Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Hermann Hesse

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.

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

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mohammed

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Solon

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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 in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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

Hall, Manly

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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

Guideposts

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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

James A. Froude

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.

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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

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert