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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Marie Leneru

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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 is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Michener, James A.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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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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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