Quotes About Character

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.

Vice Is nice But a little virtue Won't hurt you.

The great majority of successful business men and women have been and are possessors of strong personalities of the right sort, and by analyzing their climb to success it is amazing to discover how large a part good manners, good breeding, and correct behavior have had in helping them to win the goal.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

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.

If a man be self-controlled, truthful, wise, and resolute, is there aught that can stay out of reach of such a man?

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say, "I have done my best," then you are a success.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.