Motivational Quotes

Character

Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Best Quotes about Character

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.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Michener, James A.

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

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Francis Thompson

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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.