Quotes About Character

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point which means at the point of highest reality.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness.

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Courage does not always march to airs blown by a bugle it is not always wrought out of the fabric ostentation wears.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Wealth lost-something lost Honor lost-much lost Courage lost-all lost.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

Cheaters never prosper. (Because they suck.)

After you die, you wear what you are.