Quotes About Character

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of.

Think P.I.G. - thats my motto. P stands for Persistence, I stands for Integrity, and G stands for Guts. These are the ingredients for a successful business and a successful life.

Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness.

Contact with a high-minded woman is good for the life of any man.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Each person must live their life as a model for others

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.