Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Marie Leneru

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Guideposts

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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

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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Estrange, L.

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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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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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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Michener, James A.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.