Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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

Proverb

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

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Peter The Great

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

Royal, Darrell

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

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

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Michener, James A.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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

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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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.

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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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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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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Mohammed

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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.