Motivational Quotes

Character

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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Best Quotes about Character

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

Joan Didion

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

Confucius

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Royal, Darrell

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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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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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.