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

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

Hall, Manly

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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

Bible

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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Akhenaton

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

20.

During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

24.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.

Pandita, Saskya

25.

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

26.

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

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

29.

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Confucius

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

James, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

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.

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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 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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A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Collins, Marva

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