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

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

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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Lippmann, Walter

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Hermann Hesse

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

Thurber, James

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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

Horace

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Mason, John L.

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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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

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline