Quotes About Character

Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.

Every time you feel like doing the wrong thing but choose to do the right thing, you are growing!

Our higher character comes from going through, not around negative aspects. Life is a process, escape is not an option.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

When you're up in life, your friends get to know who you are. When you're down in life, you get to know who your friends are!

I can be a lover, a player, a flirt. But that's just not my style...I'm nothing but a good person, with a naughty sweet innocent smile.

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.

Work for a cause, not for applause... Live life to express, not to impress.

The life you live is more important than the words you speak.

What you look like is not who you are. It's an extension of you that should be fueled by a soul.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors.

Know it in your head, stow it in your heart, show it in your life, sow it in the world.

Your life may be the only bible some people read!

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

At the end of the day it's the choices you make that count.

In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior, he said. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

Some people have a way about them that seems to say: If I have only one life to live, let me live it as a jerk.