Motivational Quotes

Character

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

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Best Quotes about Character

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.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.

Reagan, Ronald

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage and determination.

Luther, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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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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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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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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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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

Bible

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

Freeman, Robert

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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

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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.

Peter The Great

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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

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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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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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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Drummond, Henry

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

Brown, Les

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

Voltaire

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Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Frankfurter, Felix

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

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

Angelou, Maya

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

Milton, John

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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates weak ones.

Royal, Darrell

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Camus, Albert

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius

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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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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Chambers, Oswald