Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Bible

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

Nathaniel Emmons

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

Character is a victory, not a gift.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Mohammed

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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 best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Guideposts

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

Horace

39.

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

Merikare

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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

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus