Quotes about Character

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.