Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. —Henry Clay More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. —Helen Keller More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times. —Francis Thompson More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. —Elmer G. Letterman More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. —Elihu Burritt More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. —Elbert Hubbard More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: others character reflection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies. —Robert F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email