A good character shows best when the circumstances are at their worse.

If all your friends knew your true character, how many friends would you have?

It's easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

"Christian character is not made on the mountain tops of life; it is made in the valleys." (Kathryn Kuhlman)

Keeping our word is a good measure of our character.

"It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is." (Henri-Frederic Amiel)

A fault recognized is half corrected.

If one man calls you a horse, ignore him;
If two men call you a horse, consider it;
If three men call you a horse, buy a saddle.
(Ancient Persian Proverb)

"Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution. The boys and girls who are going to make great men and women, or are going to count in any way in after life, must make up their minds not merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats." (Theodore Roosevelt)

The greatness of a person is determined by the cause for which they live, and the price they are willing to pay for its achievement.

"Pride is to character, like the attic to the house—the highest part, and generally the most empty." (John Gay)

"Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a man or woman is to be good, even though they were never rewarded for it." (Charles Kingsley)

"There are three material things essential to life. These are pure air, water, and earth. There are three immaterial things essential to life. These are admiration, hope, and love.

"Admiration—the power of discerning and taking delight in what is beautiful in visible form and lovely in human character; and, necessarily, striving to produce what is beautiful in form and to become what is lovely in character.

"Hope—the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached hereafter, whether by ourselves or others; necessarily issuing in the straight-forward and undisappointable effort to advance, according to our proper power, the gaining of them.

"Love—both of family and neighbor, faithful and satisfying."  (John Ruskin)

"The study of God's word, for the purpose of discovering God's will, is the secret discipline which has formed the greatest characters." (Alexander)

How grand it would be if we each had a character like that of Deacon Phillips Brooks, author of In the Service of the King. Of him, a Boston daily newspaper once wrote, "The day opened cloudy and cheerless, but about noon Phillips Brooks came downtown and then everything brightened up."

Maturity doesn't come with age, but with the acceptance of responsibility.

It's the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and make amends for them.

   "The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music." (The Earl of Shaftsbury)

Sow a thought, reap an act;
Sow an act, reap a habit;
Sow a habit, reap a character;
Sow a character, reap a destiny.

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