“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Character
Socrates on Wisdom
“If a man would move the world, he must first move himself.” Continue reading
Abraham Lincoln on Character
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Continue reading
Ausonius on Forgiveness
“Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.” Continue reading
Pappilon on Character
“A temptation resisted is a true measure of character.” Continue reading
Jesse Owens on Dreams
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw on Shame
“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.” Continue reading
Oscar Levant on Humility
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.” Continue reading
Robert H. Schuller on Character
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” Continue reading
Nicholas Chamfort on Character
“In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.” Continue reading