Quotes About Character

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Abbiamo bisogno di persone brave, non solo di brave persone.

Non si può costruire una reputazione basata sull'intenzione di fare qualcosa.

An able man is a man who can do things, and his ability to do things is dependent on what he has in him. What he has in him depends on what he started with and what he has done to increase and discipline it.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan. The banker is not giving something for nothing.

Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we should do, To strengthen our backbone And put iron in our soul.

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.

For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.

To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first.

Good character does not assure worldly success, or triumph in statecraft, but it does provide firm grounding in victory and consolation in failure.

To understand a man,' Napoleon is said to have observed, 'look at the world when he was twenty.' Thatcher had turned twenty in 1945.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

It is extraordinary Monsieur Benoit, but everytime I think of your triple character as a landlord, a bootmaker, and a friend, I am tempted to believe in the Trinity.

As soon as I show that I have some good qualities, do some act of kindness in spite of insult, my color is forgotten, and I am well treated. Again, I have observed that colored men of character and intellectual ability have been treated as men should be by all, whether friends or enemies; that is to say, no prejudice of color or race has ever been manifested.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity