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

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Reagan, Ronald

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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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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 cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Keller, Helen

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

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hall, Manly

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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Collins, Marva

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baldwin, Faith

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman