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

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

Michener, James A.

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.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Voltaire

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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

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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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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

Mason, John L.

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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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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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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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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Proverb

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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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

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

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Bible

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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