Quotes About Character

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By

Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise seem to be the three ingredients that are most needed in forming the Gentleman.

Nous devenons pareils à l'idéal que nous portons en notre cœur.

Now is your trying time; now you are learning how to become master of every power that you possess; and if you are careless of your opportunities now you will be less a man some day than you might have been.

So be thankful if you have been sent to school to Mistress Poverty, for though she is the sternest, yet she is the wisest and most faithful teacher, and if you will learn the tasks she sets, you will surely become a brave and noble man.

Your happiness and excellence as men depend greatly upon the use you make of your time while you are boys, for now you are building, habit by habit and thought by thought, the characters which you will have when you are men.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Occasionally he took us on a picnic or a camping trip and taught us many valuable lessons. The chief one was to remember that camping was a good way to find out people's characters. Those who were selfish showed it very soon, in that they wanted the best bed or the best food and did not want to do their share of the work.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.

WE ALL create the person we become by our choices as we go through life.

A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.