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 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

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

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur.

Arran, Earl of

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.

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

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

Hay, Colin

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.

It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog, that counts.

Howell, Harry

Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.

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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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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

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Good character is like a rubber ball -- thrown down hard -- it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball -- thrown for gain -- shattered and cracked.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Mohammed

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

William Carleton

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.

Proverb

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose.

Bulger, William M.

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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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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana

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

Voltaire

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Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.

Freeman, Robert

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

Hall, Manly

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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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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

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Frankfurter, Felix

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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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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.

Proverb, Chinese

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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Eliot, George

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head.

Guideposts

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