Quotes About Character

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

By honoring your words you are honored in this world.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

What you give, you become.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.

The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.

The most important things cannot be measured.

He has a heart of gold - only harder.

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life … all areas of life.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.