Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Leneru, Marie

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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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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There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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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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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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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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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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

31.

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

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

33.

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

Collins, Marva

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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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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

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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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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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Buddha

44.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Hall, Manly

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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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.

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