Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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.

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Merikare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Freeman, Robert

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.