Quotes on Good Character

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.