Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and…

— George Matthew Adams

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably…

— James Branch Cabell

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

— Robert E. Lee

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he may know…

— David O. McKay

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson

“Human nature with all its infirmities and deprivation is still capable of great things. It is capable of attaining to degrees of wisdom and…

— John Adams

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he…

— Plato

“He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is…

— Lao Tzu

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

— C. S. Lewis

The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.

— Maria Montessori