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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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 the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Royal, Darrell

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Voltaire

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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

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

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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.

38.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

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

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

Thomas, John M.