Quotes about Character
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Having good character doesn't mean always following the crowd.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. - Mignon McLaughlin
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. - George Will, in Newsweek
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualitites without your help. - Judith S. Martin
Sports do not build character, they reveal it. - Heywood Hale Broun Quote
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. - From Words of Life 1966
by Charles L. Wallis
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. - Laurence J. Peter
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. - Haim Ginott
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. - Cicero
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard
Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. - Charles Reade
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside; they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah, there is the sting of life. - Oscar Wilde Quote
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. - Elmer G. Ellerman
