Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Baldwin, Faith

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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

Collins, Marva

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

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

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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

Mohammed

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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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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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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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Guideposts

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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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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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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 victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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