Motivational Quotes

Character

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.

Best Quotes about Character

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Proverb

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

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

Brown, Les

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Bible

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

Hay, Colin

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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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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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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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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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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

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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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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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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.