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

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

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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

Bible

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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.

Leneru, Marie

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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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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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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.

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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