Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

Character is a victory, not a gift.

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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 man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

19.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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

Proverb

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.