Motivational Quotes

Character

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Michener, James A.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Thackeray, William M.

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Guideposts

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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

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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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Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Bounds, E. M.

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

Mason, John L.

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bisset, Jacqueline

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence

Virgil

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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A rich man has no need of character.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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 empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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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