Character Quotes

Character is power.

The fate of all extremes is such: men may be read, as well as books, too much.

Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can’t be ultimately changed. It’s the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The goal of evolution is self – conquest.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

Many men, suspected of being good fellows, have, when the evidence was summed up, proved an alibi.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.