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

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

Richard Greenberg

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

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Thurber, James

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.

Elihu Burritt

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

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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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Character is a victory, not a gift.

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Freeman, Robert

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

Francis Thompson

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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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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

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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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The highest qualities of character must be earned.

Abbott, Lyman

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Some people are born hammers, others anvils.

Proverb

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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

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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Cicero

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

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Mason, John L.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage.

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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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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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Character is simply habit long continued.

Plutarch