You must look into people, as well as at them.
Character Quotes
Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.
Happiness is not the end of life, character is.
Observe a man’s actions; scrutinize his motives; take note of the things that give him pleasure. How, then, can he hide from you what he really is?
A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and die hollow and worthless as a puffball; and he may be externally defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him. A man’s true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his […]
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first. In the moral life, as in life itself, we […]
