A list of quotes about the importance of building good character.

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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

– Bruce Lee

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

– Helen Keller

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”

– Heraclitus

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

– Maya Angelou

“Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.”

– Jim Rohn

“A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.”

– James Allen

“Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”

– John C. Maxwell

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

– John Wooden

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“Everyone tries to define this thing called, character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.”

– Unknown

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

– Will Rogers

“Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.”

– Walt Whitman

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.”

– Joan Didion

“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”

– Abraham Lincoln

“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”

– Wayne W. Dyer

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

– Wayne W. Dyer

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.”

– John Burroughs

“My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.”

– Unknown

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

– George Bernard Shaw

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

– Billy Graham

“You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.”

– Richard Nixon

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”

– Anne Frank

“People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

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– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

– James A. Michener

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already has been said, simply and eloquently, in a way that can seldom be improved. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the most widely-quoted American author lamented that 'All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.'

There's a beauty in brevity, and my favorite epigrams are brief. Winston Churchill wrote, 'Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.' Here are 'The world's best quotes in 1-10 words,' followed by my comments:

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Love.—The Prophets
Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha. All the world's religious saints and prophets hold love as a central value, the glue that anchors the universe.
We hear, 'Love makes the world go round,' and 'Love heals all wounds.' These are familiar themes: love of friends, ideas, and self. Love of God and of country. Even love of life itself. If I could only have one word for all eternity, love would be my choice.
Know thyself. —Socrates
In college I studied philosophy under Professor Don Crosby, and met Socrates early. In career development, self-knowledge is everything. In a career, you can be two or three degrees off course and walk into a wall, instead of through a doorway. You don't have to be far off to have it fail.
Career unhappiness often results from lack of focus, and lack of focus stems from limited self-knowledge. But self-knowledge takes time, introspection, and effort. So it's easy to avoid.
Inches make champions. —Vince Lombardi
Under Vincent Thomas Lombardi's direction, the Green Bay Packers collected six division titles, five NFL championships, two Super Bowls, and record of 98-30-4. Lombardi knew a lot about winning. If football is a game of inches, so is career success. In the competitive world, you seldom win by a landslide.
Buzz Sullivan, my high school diving coach, told me, 'A champion is someone who goes so far they can't go another inch—and then they go that inch.' As a youth I wondered why that was important. Now I know. Winning in business or in personal life is all about inches: going small distances successfully, then going farther still.
Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost
We are swamped in change. And we had better get used to it, or at least figure out how to deal with it. In our parents' day, career change was uncommon. The norm was lifetime employment. Now CAREER = CHANGE. You'll have five careers in a lifetime, maybe six. Perhaps you'll do part-time, project, interim, or consulting work. And even if you're in your ideal dream job today,that might change tomorrow. Nothing gold can stay.
Martin Bucco taught English literature at Colorado State University, and first brought my attention to what words could mean. Bucco spoke of what he called 'the great dead minds,' those who have come before us and written the