Quotes about Character
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies ... the real man.
— Marcus Aurelius
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.
— William Wordsworth
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
— George Eliot
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
— Seneca
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
— John Milton
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
— Martin Luther
Wickedness is weakness.
— John Milton
Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
— Anonymous
Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.
— Cicero