Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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 develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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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

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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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

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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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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

Seneca

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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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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Mohammed

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

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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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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Royal, Darrell

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von