If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
Abigail Van Buren:
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
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Abraham Lincoln:
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Albert Einstein:
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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Benjamin Franklin:
There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
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Clarence Darrow:
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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Goethe:
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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Helen Keller:
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Henry David Thoreau:
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
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James A. Froude:
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Mark Twain:
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Thomas Carlyle:
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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Victor Frankl:
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.
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Woodrow Wilson:
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.