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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

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

Mohammed

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Elmer G. Letterman

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Collins, Marva

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mason, John L.

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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

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Joan Didion

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Bible

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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 is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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