Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

James A. Froude

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.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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.

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

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Hall, Manly

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Voltaire

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Mohammed

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William