Motivational Quotes

Character

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Character

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

Guideposts

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

12.

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.

13.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

23.

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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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

29.

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

Bible

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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Royal, Darrell

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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