Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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.

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

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

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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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 man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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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

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Greeley, 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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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Freeman, Robert

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Horace

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Solon

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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