Quotes About Character

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life.

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Violence doesn't equal strength.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

Showing strength is different than showing muscle.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

Strength doesn't come from what you do, strength is from who you are.