Motivational Quotes

Character

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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Best Quotes about Character

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

Hall, Manly

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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 our destiny.

Heraclitus

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Smith, Roy L.

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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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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

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hay, Colin

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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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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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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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Seneca

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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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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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