Character Quotes : About Character Building

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

- Albert Einstein, Swiss-American mathematician and physicist

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.  

- Theodore Roosevelt,  26th U.S. president

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.

- Booker T. Washington,  Educator and humanitarian

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, philosopher and poet

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig." 

- Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. president

AB – AD : Quotes & Illustrations For Powerful Presentations  

Ability • Abundance •  Accomplishment • Action • Adaptability • Advancement • Adversity

Ability Quote & Illustration

• Longfellow could take a worthless sheet of paper, write a poem on it and make it worthy $6,000. That’s genius!
• Rockefeller could put his name to a piece of paper and make it worth a million. That’s capital!
• Uncle Sam can take a silver, stamp an emblem on it, and make it worth a dollar. That’s money!
• A mechanic can take a metal that is worth only five dollars and make it worth three hundred and fifty dollars. That’s skill!
• An artist can take a ten dollar piece of canvas, paint a picture on it and make it worth thousands. That’s art!