Motivational Quotes

Character

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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Best Quotes about Character

One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Maurois, Andre

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

James A. Froude

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Peter The Great

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

Hay, Colin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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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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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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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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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Hermann Hesse

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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

Thomas, John M.

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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

Miller, Arthur

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The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Voltaire

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Merikare

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Lincoln, Abraham