Motivational Quotes

Character

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

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.

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

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

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

James A. Froude

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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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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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 is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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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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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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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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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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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, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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 formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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You must look into people, as well as at them.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Confucius

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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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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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Euripides

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

Bible

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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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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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