Character Quotes : About Character Building

{mosimage}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