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

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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Leneru, Marie

Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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 is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Collins, Marva

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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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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Mohammed

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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hermann Hesse

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Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Montale, Eugenio

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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

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

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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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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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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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Francis Thompson

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Character is victory organized.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Estrange, L.

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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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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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.