Motivational Quotes

Character

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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Best Quotes about Character

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

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

Aristotle

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.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Gardner, Ava

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Michener, James A.

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

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

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Thomas, John M.

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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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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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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Pandita, Saskya

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You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.

Francis, Clarence

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Mohammed

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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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To succeed is nothing -- it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Leneru, Marie

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.