Quotes About Character

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

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A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.

The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack

Great people have great values and great ethics.

My experience has shown me that if you have to say what you are, you probably aren't. Think about that for a moment. "I'm honest," "I'm ethical," even "I'm the boss," or "I'm in charge," usually indicates just the opposite. Doesn't it?

I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them.

You and I won't ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ's character and His call for us to be His disciples.

God wants us to be stronger than we are--more fixed in our purpose, more certain of our commitments, eventually needing less coddling from Him, showing more willingness to shoulder some of the burden of His heavy load. In short, He wants us to be more like He is and, if you haven't noticed, some of us are not like that yet.

When Christ comes, the members of His Church must look and act like members of His Church are supposed to look and act if we are to be acceptable to Him. We must be doing His work and we must be living his teachings. He must recognize us quickly and easily as truly being his disciples.