Character Quotes
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.
He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a great nation will we act greatly in meeting our challenges at home
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character
God gave you a gift of 84, 600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?
Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.
