Motivational Quotes

Character

Character development is the aim of education.

- O'Shea

Best Quotes about Character

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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.

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.

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

Mohammed

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

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Michener, James A.

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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

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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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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Bible

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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

Elihu Burritt

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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Peter The Great

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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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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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.