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 is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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 consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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 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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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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

Hall, Manly

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.