Motivational Quotes

Character

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

- Pandita, Saskya

Best Quotes about Character

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.

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

Guideposts

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Hay, Colin

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

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

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

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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

11.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Mason, John L.

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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 higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Francis Thompson

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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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

Voltaire

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

35.

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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

41.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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