Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Character

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Mason, John L.

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

Brown, Les

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

Horace

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

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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

Guideposts

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Michener, James A.

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon