Quotes on Character Building

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.