Quotes About Character

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

In the journey of life, pride will not take you nearly as far as humility.

Give your behavior and conduct more importance than how you look, what you're dressed in and everything else that's superficial in appearance.

The best way to understand a person is to look at the company they keep.

Sometimes what we learn and who we become in the process of waiting is even more important than what were waiting for.

There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.

Be yourself. There is no need to impress others by pretending to be who you are NOT but STRIVE to be a better person.

A strong person knows they have strength enough for their journey, but a person of strength knows that it is in their journey where they will become strong.

Failure happens all the time in life, what makes you a better person, is how you react to that FAILURE!

The most valuable things you can learn in life is patience and honesty... then watch your life blossom into something beautiful.

Your true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do nothing for you!

Twenty years from now it won't matter what shoes you wore, how your hair looked, or what kind of jeans you bought. What will matter is what you learned and how you used it.

Some people will test you, some will use you, and some will teach you; but most importantly some will bring out the best in you. Learn to see and accept the differences between these people, and carry on accordingly.

The people who affect your life and the downfalls you experience, they are the ones who create who you are. Even the bad experiences can be learned from, those lessons are the hardest of all, but the most important.

Life is not about achieving success and wealth alone; you need to include total package of your character at the same time!

The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from family life where people treat one another withrespect, consideration, and love.

You preach a better sermon with your life than you do with your lips.

At the end of the day you will not remember the person with the most beautiful face but you will remember the person with the most beautiful heart and soul.

What you say and what you do, in the end is up to you.

If anything came easy, it wouldn't be worth it. So I say, welcome difficult times, they teach you a lot and ones you are through them, you will be a better person.

Be polite even to those who are rude to you, not because they are, but because of you are.

Life isn't a matter of being first. It is a matter of keeping your heart in the right place, IN EVERY SITUATION.

It isn't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.