Motivational Quotes

Character

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

Best Quotes about Character

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Francis Thompson

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Guideposts

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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Estrange, L.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard 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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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 well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

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