Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hay, Colin

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Mason, John L.

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

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

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Voltaire

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

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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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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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Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Thomas, John M.

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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathaniel Emmons

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

Michener, James A.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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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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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

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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Character matters; leadership descends from character.