Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Best Quotes about Character

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Bible

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

Michener, James A.

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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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Howell, Harry

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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 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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marie Leneru

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

Mohammed

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

Thomas, John M.

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Merikare

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline