Character Quotes - Page 5

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  The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Success, Faith

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 03, 2014

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• To measure the man, measure his heart.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Life, Sports, Heart

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Attitude, I Hate You

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Angel, People

  "Why there's no such thing as a gifted child" by Wendy Berliner, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2017.

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• Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

  John Galsworthy

  Power, Thinking, Gentleman

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• How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Selfishness, Principles

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• Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Men, Feelings

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• Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Long, Emotion

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2014

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• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Guarantees, Carefree

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• Character develops itself in the stream of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Streams, Good Character

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• Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

  Jim Rohn

  Perseverance, Integrity, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2016

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• Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Perfection, Simplicity, Style

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 15, 2013

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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 have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, Inspirational, Kindness

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.162

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• If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Encouragement, Business

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 21, 2014

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Past

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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.

  Leon Trotsky

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Fall

  Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, George Saunders (1977). “Portraits, political & personal”

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• Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention to seemingly trivial matters. Someone who grows from each minor life event will eventually reach high levels of character perfection.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Perfection, Pay, Matter

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• Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

  Epictetus

  Role Models, Follow Your Heart, Personality

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• Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Graduation, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.238, Courier Corporation

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• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

  John C. Maxwell

  Talent, Outstanding, Suicide Inspirational

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “Developing the Leader Within You Workbook”, p.219, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Tree, Shadow, Reputation

  Abraham Lincoln, Anthony Gross (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”

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