Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Character

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Mason, John L.

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

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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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

11.

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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

15.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

Thomas, John M.

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

Bible

21.

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Seneca

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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Guideposts

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo