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

Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Hay, Colin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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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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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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

35.

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

Solon

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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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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

Bible

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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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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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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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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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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