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

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

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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.

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

James A. Froude

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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

11.

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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Seneca

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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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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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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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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

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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

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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

41.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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