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

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Solon

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas, John M.

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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 formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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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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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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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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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.