Character Quote by Samuel Smiles Download Open image “Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.” — Samuel Smiles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Good character Possession Property
Good character is the single most important attribute of a successful and worthy life. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage… — Arthur S. Adams Copy Share Image
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. — John Howe Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Those who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
