Quotes About Character

The reason there are few self-made rich people is because few people can tolerate disappointment. Instead of learning to face disappointment, they spend their lives avoiding it." Rich dad believed that disappointment is an important part of learning. Just as we learn from our mistakes, we gain character from our disappointments. The following are some words of advice he gave me over the years: Expect to be disappointed.

Inside every soldier is a hero. It is the leader's job to bring out that hero that lives in each of

the individual lacks internal control and discipline.

The key to long-term success in life is your education and skills, your life experiences, and most of all, your personal character.

Money and success make you arrogant and stupid. Now with some poverty and humility behind you, you can become a student again.

Choose friends carefully: the power of association First

Of all the steps, self-discipline may be the most difficult to master if it's not part of your makeup. But personal self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the poor, and the middle class.

have seen so many people show their core behavior when the pressure is on.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

Can I help you? said Jane. Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, What is the matter? But Jane always wanted to help: and, though she was too young to realize it, the tragedy of her little existence was that nobody ever wanted her help.

I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman.

I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked. But I think I'd like it if he could be wicked, and wouldn't.

Many people have told me that they regretted Matthew's death in Green Gables. I regret it myself. If I had the book to write over again I would spare Matthew for several years. But when I wrote it I thought he must die, that there might be a necessity for self-sacrifice on Anne's part, so poor Matthew joined the long procession of ghosts that haunt my literary past.

every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.

You know there are some people, like Matthew and Mrs. Allen, that you can love right off without any trouble. And there are others, like Mrs. Lynde, that you have to try very hard to love. You know you ought to love them because they know so much and are such active workers in the church, but you have to keep reminding yourself of it all the time or else you forget.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.