Character Quote by George Matthew Adams

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

— Harry S. Truman

Society asks of most men more than sheer intellect ability-it demands also moral hardiness, self-discipline, a competitive spirit and other qualities that in more…

— Julius Adams Stratton

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all…

— Anonymous

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only…

— Theodore Roosevelt

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

— George Bernard Shaw

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education…

— Samuel Johnson

Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly…

— Julius Rosenwald

There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment.…

— Fernando Pessoa

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take…

— William Godwin

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without…

— George Henry Lewes