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

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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.

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

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

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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.

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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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

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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.

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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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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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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

James A. Froude

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Baldwin, Faith

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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Integrity has no need of rules.