Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lippmann, Walter

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Freeman, Robert

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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.

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Hall, Manly

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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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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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.

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

Voltaire

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Horace