Motivational Quotes

Character

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

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Best Quotes about Character

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.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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.

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

Proverb

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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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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 a victory, not a gift.

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Hermann Hesse

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

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