Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hay, Colin

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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

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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 rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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 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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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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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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

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

Confucius

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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.