Lyman Abbott Quotes

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

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

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

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.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Character is a perfectly educated will.

Character is perfectly educated will.

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

I try my best to be a good person and be the best I can be.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

The force of character is cumulative.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

When you're talking to potential professional athletes, I really like to talk about the fact that even though you're a great athlete, that doesn't make you a good person. And if you can build that foundation first, everything else usually follows suit.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.