Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thomas, John M.

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

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

Mohammed

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Peter The Great

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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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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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 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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Solon

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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

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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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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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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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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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