Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Voltaire

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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Wooden, John

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

Merikare

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

Michener, James A.

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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 is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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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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To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Mohammed

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hall, Manly

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Seneca

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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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.

Arran, Earl of

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.