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

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hall, Manly

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Shakespeare, William

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Wherever man goes to dwell his character goes with him.

Proverb, African

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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

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Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Limbaugh, Rush

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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Joan Didion

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Character is our destiny.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Bisset, Jacqueline

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Hay, Colin

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

Guideposts

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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Lowell, James Russell

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.