Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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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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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

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Collins, Marva

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