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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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.

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Thomas, John M.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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

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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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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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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

20.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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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

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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.

27.

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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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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As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Bible

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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

Collins, Marva

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Merikare

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De