Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hay, Colin

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Solon

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Proverb

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Seneca

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.