Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

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

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

Flaws are really interesting.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

I'm always fascinated with how a person becomes a good quality person, a productive person, and how it happened to me, because I was a terror.

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

The main thing is to be yourself and not allow people to disturb you to be different, because they want you to be different. You gotta be yourself. Many times you throw a mistake due to your own personality or your own character or from interference that you get along the way then you learn, and the main thing is to learn from your mistakes and get better.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

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.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.