Motivational Quotes

Character

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

- Hay, Colin

Best Quotes about Character

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Karr, Alphonse

15.

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

20.

A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

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

Buddha

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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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

37.

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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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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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.

41.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character is victory organized.