Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Leneru, Marie

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Buddha

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.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Mohammed

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

Proverb

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Merikare

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

Brown, Les

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

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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

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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