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Quotes About Character

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.
~ Matthew Weiner
People say that every person plays the lead role in the movie of their own lives. I don't. I play a side character even in my own life's movie. ~ Mrigank Kashyap
~ Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.
~ David R. Wommack
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
~ Heraclitus
Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!
~ H. P. Blavatsky
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!
~ Pete Maravich
Practice humility and patience.
~ Vincent de Paul
The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.
~ Emily Post
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Patience is God's nature.
~ Tertullian
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
~ Billy Casper
The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
~ Bill Vaughan
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
~ Tertullian
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!
~ Anne Hathaway
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
~ John Calvin
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
~ Dodie Smith
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
~ Joyce Meyer
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
~ Charles Caleb Colton