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

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.

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

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Seneca

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Hay, Colin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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