Quotes About Character

The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be.

We can teach what we know, but ultimately, we will reproduce what we are.

God must first accomplish something in you before he can accomplish something through you.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." HELEN KELLER

Suffering will change us, but not necessarily for the better. We have to choose that. And it was the choosing that made all the difference for me.

The decisions we make and the way we behave are what ultimately shape our character. Charles A. Hall aptly described that process in these lines: "We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny

Problems never just go away or take care of themselves, especially when God allows them in order to shape our character. God will patiently wait and allow the circumstances to compel us to do what we should have done at the beginning: surrender all control to God.

You can bend a man and make him soft, or you can bend yourself and make him strong. But you will never have the man you've dreamed of unless you let him lead.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Yes, yes," Gee Sook said. "Look how Jung stands like a man today.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.

Me – accused of being too nice. It boggles the mind.

There's a fight going on inside of everyone between a good wolf and a bad wolf, but the one you feed is the one who wins

If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted or extroverted, wild or mellow.

Always, Judaism stresses deed before creed. Your actions, not your beliefs, are the true measure of your character...Judaism teaches that whether a person is considerate of others is as important as whether he prays daily. We are the sum of our actions, and most of our actions are small deeds, not large gestures.

a man who has the strength of character to leave off when he has only ruined others, is a reformed character.

I think that when you see a woman who has sex power but chooses not to use it, she is someone you can trust. -'Cass