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

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Chambers, Oswald

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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Estrange, L.

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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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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Gill, Vince

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Merikare

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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

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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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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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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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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If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hay, Colin

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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman