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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Proverb

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.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hay, Colin

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

Bible

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin