Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

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

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Michener, James A.

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

Horace

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Seneca

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Buddha

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Royal, Darrell

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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