Top 100 Quotes About Strength Of Character
#1. She'd once been appalled to hear of women claiming PMS as a defense for murder. Now she understood. She could happily murder someone today! In fact, she felt like there should be some sort of recognition for her remarkable strength of character that she didn't.
Liane Moriarty
#2. It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.
Katherine Reutter
#3. Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#4. Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.
Mark Hopkins
#5. It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.
Benjamin Graham
#6. It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#7. Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond
#8. Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?
Ruth St. Denis
#10. She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.
W. Somerset Maugham
#11. I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
Bob Hope
#12. Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.
Brendon Burchard
#13. My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
Olivia Williams
#14. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
Stephen Richards
#15. Although my work leads me to spend time with Nazi skinheads, diseased street prostitutes and homeless alcoholics, I do not have the strength of character to be a pathologist.
William T. Vollmann
#16. I suppose that one's years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.
Peter Koevari
#17. There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.
Sean Penn
#19. Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
#20. Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.
Morarji Desai
#21. She was of that certain age when the bloom of youth must give way to strength of character, but her face was handsome in its intelligent eyes and commanding smile, and her hair retained a youthful spring as it threatened to escape from its carefully pinned rolls.
Helen Simonson
#22. Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady's requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux less determined than Henry Holliday, a Georgia planter ten years her senior.
Mary Doria Russell
#23. Liessa comes to see me sometimes. She still comes to see her old dad, my little girl. She was the only one with the strength of character to murder me. A chip off the old block.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
Edward Abbey
#25. Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it's strength)!!!
Dada Bhagwan
#26. It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
Harry Reid
#27. Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#28. To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
Saul Bellow
#29. Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
Mason Cooley
#30. Obedience and humility require courage and strength of character. Weakness and fear cause one to fall back on his or her pride, which results in a vicious cycle
Sienna McQuillen
#31. If but a small part of Mme. Curie's strength of character and devotion were alive in Europe's intellectuals, Europe would face a brighter future.
Albert Einstein
#32. Valor represents bravery and strength of character, boldness, and fortitude - all qualities that prepare a person to act responsibly in times of need, of challenge, or of danger.
Robert L. Millet
#33. Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
The Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
#34. Our society has traded strength of character for makeovers that deceive.
Billy Graham
#35. Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character).
Bob Mayer
#36. Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly the same proportion as persons in all other walks of life do.
Julius Rosenwald
#38. A rubbish word. One he hardly ever used. The word had no moral weight. A person didn't need courage for "nice." "Nice" called for no sacrifice, no strength of character. If only all he'd ever had to do was be nice . . .
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#39. If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.
T. Harv Eker
#40. The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.
Robert Kiyosaki
#41. I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Larry Hagman
#42. The depth of perspective and strength of character are what make thinking profound.
Pearl Zhu
#43. No one can give you the strength of character necessary ... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
Adyashanti
#44. The thing she valued high above the rest, was his strength of character. Stephen Nicolson had the courage of his convictions: he would never let his lover bend his will, and Dorothy liked that; there was a danger, she thought, in the sort of loving that made people act against type.
Kate Morton
#45. For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.
John Huston
#46. A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.
William Benton Clulow
#48. As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both a man and a politician, I will remember him for his pleasant demeanour and strength of character.
Thomas Mulcair
#49. Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
#50. Son, you've got a lot to learn about love. You think it's all passion and excitement? That is only a small piece. Real love requires strength of character and courage. I'm not yet sure you have either. Go find your father. Bring him to Fort Mavis. Show me I'm wrong about you. Mason
Ruth Cardello
#51. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
Matthew Kelly
#52. The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.
George W. Bush
#53. If you do not work on self- improvement or do not develop strength of character, you will be inclined to succumb to the opinions of the people surrounding you or to the standards criminally imposed on you by the society
Sunday Adelaja
#54. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill
#55. Strength of character is never with those who blindly follow. You need to be able to make your own choices and walk your own path.
Celeste Lim
#56. The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles
Robert Kiyosaki
#57. I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.
Tony Abbott
#58. The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#59. Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.
John Kador
#60. Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.
K.L. Toth
#61. I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.
Amanda Lindhout
#62. Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Les Brown
#63. After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
Etty Hillesum
#64. Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.
Robert Kiyosaki
#65. Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character.
Erich Von Manstein
#66. Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.
Richard G. Scott
#67. That my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not - of
Booker T. Washington
#68. There is a great deal more to be got out of things than is generally got out of them, whether the thing be a chapter of the Bible or a yellow turnip, and the marvel is that those who use the most material should so often be those that show the least result in strength or character.
George MacDonald
#69. Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
Rudyard Kipling
#70. Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.
Traci L. Slatton
#71. Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
Richard M. Nixon
#72. Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself!
Avijeet Das
#73. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.
Kylie Griffin
#74. It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
#75. Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.
Alexander MacLaren
#76. Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come.
Ellen Hopkins
#77. Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.
Louise J. Kaplan
#78. Being violent is easy, too easy." He brushed it off. "Holding back, being gentle, restraining your strength when it's not needed, that takes - " "Character," she said. "Loads of it.
Joey W. Hill
#79. The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
Claiborne Pell
#80. I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it's Dad?" Tyler told me.
"You'll feel even worse, of course, but you'll carry on, because happiness has a way of creeping in again. It really does," I said.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#81. We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.
Swami Vivekananda
#82. 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.
Leon Trotsky
#83. The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#84. When fear no longer takes hold, the possibilities are endless.
Tom Althouse
#85. The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
Margaret Oliphant
#86. I have the right to try to overcome the challenges in my own life, she continued fiercely. Who's to say that's not what makes as strong and decent? How much character and strength do you think someone who's never had any sorrow or loss of hardship possesses, My lord?
Joey W. Hill
#87. When you make a mistake. You can do a little song and dance, put on a little show and have everyone laugh it off.
Or you can own it, and next time show everyone how great you are. While silencing your critiques.
Personally speaking... I don't help no one make a fool out of you.
Vincent Edwards
#88. The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.
Abhijit Naskar
#89. It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.
Peggy Fleming
#90. It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
Criss Jami
#91. One's character is determined not how she gets caught in the downpour of disappointment, but how she finds the hope to look for the rainbow.
Colette Freedman
#92. Character is less about what we do wrong
And
All about what we make right ...
Navonne Johns
#93. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#95. Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story I wanted to live - somebody who appears to be, or is, weak becoming stronger.
Joss Whedon
#96. I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.
Emma Raveling
#97. Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.
Samuel Smiles
#98. Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within.
T.F. Hodge
#99. The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.
MaryElizabeth Williams
#100. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.
John Connolly
