Quotes on Character

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.Aristotle

• character
• virtue
• habit

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.Isabelle Eberhardt

• character
• self improvement

A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character - how he makes it and how he spends it.James Moffatt

• character
• money

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

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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