Motivational Quotes

Character

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Character

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Royal, Darrell

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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

9.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Voltaire

17.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

18.

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

Proverb

19.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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 development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

41.

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

Mason, John L.

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

43.

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

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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

46.

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

Hay, Colin

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

48.

Character is a victory, not a gift.

49.

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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