Learn Through Quotations

“Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity .”

“Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbour will feel a pleasure in the reverse; and those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues are happy if others can be depressed to a level with themselves.”

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.”

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”

“You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.”

“Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.”

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

“Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

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

“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”

“Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.”

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.”

“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.”

“In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.”

“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”

“Our character... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forgiving my own character.”

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forgive yourself one.”

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.”

“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: hence proceeds mawkishness. ”