Motivational Quotes

Character

The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Akhenaton

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Voltaire

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Brown, Les

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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Hall, Manly

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

Mason, John L.

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

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

Joan Didion

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

James, William

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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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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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.

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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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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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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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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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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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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