Motivational Quotes

Character

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.

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Best Quotes about Character

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Thomas, Isiah

Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Joan Didion

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

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

Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

Boardman, George D.

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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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peter The Great

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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

Seneca

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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hay, Colin

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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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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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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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

Bible

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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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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hall, Manly

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.

Thomas, John M.

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

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.

Babson, Roger

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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