Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Proverb

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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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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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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.

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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