Motivational Quotes

Character

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Best Quotes about Character

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Confucius

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An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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

Hay, Colin

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.