A person’s character is what it is. It’s a little like a marriage – only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
Character Quotes
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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.
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.
