To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

—Nathaniel Emmons

More quotations tagged with “character”

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

—Marie Leneru

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

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11 Jul 2015 Added