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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Collins, Marva

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

Mason, John L.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Bible

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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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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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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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

Guideposts

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Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Mohammed

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Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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.