Quotes on Good Character

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

A good character is the best tombstone.

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.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

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

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

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

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.