Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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.

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

Baldwin, Faith

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

11.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Hall, Manly

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

23.

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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

35.

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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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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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

41.

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

42.

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

Reagan, Ronald

43.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

44.

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

45.

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Proverb

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