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

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Leneru, Marie

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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.

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

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Baldwin, Faith

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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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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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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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.

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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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.

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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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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

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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.

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hay, Colin

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

Euripides

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

Thurber, James

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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