Quotes About Character

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Always take the high road.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Honor does not have to be defended.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

Trials teach us what we are.

Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.