Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Euripides

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Merikare

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Collins, Marva

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mohammed

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mason, John L.

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.