Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Merikare

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Hall, Manly

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

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

Proverb

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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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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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

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

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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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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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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 the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Michener, James A.

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.