Motivational Quotes

Character

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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

Proverb

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

Euripides

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Seneca

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Baldwin, Faith

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

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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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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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

22.

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

Peter The Great

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Freeman, Robert

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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

Solon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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

Voltaire

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mohammed

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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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