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

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

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Hay, Colin

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

Joan Didion

Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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.

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Proverb

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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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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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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Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

Hume, David

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Landers, Ann

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Crisp, Quentin

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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Karr, Alphonse

31.

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

Bible

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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

James, William

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

Estrange, L.

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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface.

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Elmer G. Letterman

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Seneca

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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

Confucius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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