Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Mohammed

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

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

Leneru, Marie

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

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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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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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Collins, Marva

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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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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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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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