Motivational Quotes

Character

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Marie Leneru

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

Hermann Hesse

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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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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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Horace

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Mohammed

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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