Motivational Quotes

Character

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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Best Quotes about Character

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

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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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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Mohammed

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Hermann Hesse