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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Merikare

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

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

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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.

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.

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

Confucius

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Proverb

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bible

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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Michener, James A.

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

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo