All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.
Character Quotes
It cannot be said that by common experience the character of most people indicted by a grand jury is good.
The force of character is cumulative.
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
There are geniuses in trade, as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate, is not to be told. It lies in the man: that is all anybody can tell you about it. See him, and you will know as easily why he succeeds, […]
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character.
Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories, or, as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases, and the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world.
