A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence
By: Abraham Lincoln


The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer


One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments
By: Stefan Zweig


A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer
By: Hesketh Pearson


Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do
By: William Ellery Channing


Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify
By: Sydney J Harris


Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect
By: John Morley


No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character
By: John Morley


Of all the properties which belong to honourable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character
By: Henry Clay


You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do
By: Norman Douglas


I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
By: Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006



Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
By: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)


Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
By: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)


The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)


I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
By: Nathaniel Emmons


The character of a man is known from his conversations.
By: Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)


To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.
By: Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004


One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
By: Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)


I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
By: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986


Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
By: Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"


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


People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
By: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)


Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
By: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"


In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.
By: Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)


Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
By: Elmer G. Letterman

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
By: Horace Greeley


The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
By: Charles R. Brown


Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
By: Dr Laura Schlessinger


A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
By: Evan Esar


Sow an act...reap a habit; Sow a habit...reap a character; Sow a character...reap a destiny. -- George Dana Boardman # It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer


I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
By: Lois McMaster Bujold


There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks
By: David Lloyd George


Character matters; leadership descends from character
By: Rush Limbaugh


I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man
By: George Washington


Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist They are wrong: it is character
By: Albert Einstein


Character is power Booker T
By: Washington


Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing
By: Abraham Lincoln


One can acquire everything in solitude except character
By: Stendhal (Henri Beyle)

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
By: Isaac Asimov


Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
By: Sir William Arthur

smshava.blogspot.com
It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
By: Thomas Arnold



The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
By: Æschylus


Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.
By: Æschylus


There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
By: Æschylus

smshava.blogspot.com
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
By: Eric Bentley


Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
By: Jack Benny


The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
By: Warren G. Bennis
smshava.blogspot.com

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
By: Bible


You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
By: William Adams


Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
By: William Adams

smshava.blogspot.com
The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--Management.
By: Scott Adams


I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.
By: Scott Adams
smshava.blogspot.com

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
By: Henry Brooks Adams

Age will not be defied.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
By: Thomas B. Aldrich

smshava.blogspot.com
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
By: Amos Bronson Alcott


The surest sign of age is loneliness.
By: Amos Bronson Alcott


Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
By: Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

smshava.blogspot.com
The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
By: Sri da Avabhas


Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. "You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.
By: Sri da Avabhas


Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
By: Marcus Aelius Aurelius


The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
By: Saint Augustine

smshava.blogspot.com
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67.
By: Norman R. Augustine


The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
By: Wystan Hugh Auden


The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
By: Wystan Hugh Auden

smshava.blogspot.com
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
By: Louis Auchincloss


Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
By: Paul Aubuchon


No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.
By: Athenæus


Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
By: Saint Francis of Assisi
smshava.blogspot.com

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.
By: Margot Asquith


Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
By: Isaac Asimov