Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Gill, Vince

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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.

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

Bible

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

Hay, Colin

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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.

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Royal, Darrell

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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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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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mason, John L.

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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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 best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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