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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Marie Leneru

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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 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

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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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Francis Thompson

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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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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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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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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

27.

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

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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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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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 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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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Howell, Harry