Quotes About Character

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

Leverage your uniqueness.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.