40 Quotes by Character

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.