Character Quotes

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.:
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."

Albert Einstein:
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

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."

Benjamin Franklin:
"There never was a good knife made of bad steel."

Cicero:
"It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity."

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."

Eleanor Roosevelt:
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

Faith Baldwin:
"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness."

Goethe:
"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

H. Jackson Brown:
"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination."

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."