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

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered.

Merikare

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fitzwater, P. B.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Collins, Marva

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

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Washington, Booker T.

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

James A. Froude

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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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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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer G. Letterman

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

Mohammed

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Character development is the aim of education.

O'Shea

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Francis Thompson

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.