Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
Character Quotes
Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
In the last analysis, the all-important factor in national greatness is national character.
How can we ever a harvest of thought who have not had a seed time of character?
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
We must learn how to separate the real character from extraneous adhesions and casual circumstances, to consider closely him whom we are about to adopt or reject; to regard his inclinations as well as his actions; to trace out those virtues which lie torpid in the heart for want of opportunity, and those vices that […]
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
With all the power that a President has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the President of the United States can have.
