Quotes Added in April 2007

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.John Hammond

• character
• success

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.Abraham Lincoln

• courage
• character
• self improvement
• independence

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• character
• talent

This is the source.

Capitalism is the only system in the world founded on credit and character.Hubert Eaton

• character
• credit
• capitalism

As diamonds cut diamonds, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.Cyrus Bartol

• character
• virtue
• genius

Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science.Harlow Shapley

• science
• character
• reason

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.George Herbert

• skill
• confidence

Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.William Feather

• confidence
• bragging
• advertising

Fight! Be somebody! If you have lost confidence in yourself, make believe you are somebody else, somebody that's got brains, and act like him.Sol Hess

• self esteem
• confidence