Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mason, John L.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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

Crisp, Quentin

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Rohn, Jim

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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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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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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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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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hermann Hesse

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Freeman, Robert

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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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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 - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

Joan Didion

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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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

Royal, Darrell

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baldwin, Faith

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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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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.