Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Shakespeare, William

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mohammed

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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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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 hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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