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  • Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  • One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

  • 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

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Aug 08, 2013
  • 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.

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

  • The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children

  • Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

    Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.140, Ballantine Books
  • 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, David Dodd (2009). “Security Analysis, Sixth Edition, Part V - Analysis of The Income Account. The Earnings Factor in Common-Stock Valuation”, p.405, McGraw Hill Professional
  • I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?

    Source: www.mtv.com
  • In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

    Political   Age   Example  
    John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Character   Self   Mind  
  • 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.

    Country   Character   Men  
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.426
  • One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.

  • 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.

  • Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

    Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2016.
  • 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.

    "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.
  • 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, George Breitman, George Saunders (1977). “Portraits, political & personal”
  • Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

    Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.85, Sophia Institute Press
  • 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.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it. We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain. One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on...unless you are a king.

    Running   Country   Kings  
  • The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

    Twitter post from Mar 22, 2017
  • 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.

    Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”
  • I'm very much for helping create women who are going to be successful women. I don't like women who imitate men, who want to emasculate men. I think women should be feminine. That does not mean a 'air-brain' or someone who is not strong. I think real strength is strength of character, not the ability to push everyone around.

    Strong   Real   Women  
  • My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

  • Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person.

  • The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.

    "Rose, Blanche, and Violet". Book by George Henry Lewes, Volume 1, p. 8-9, 1848.
  • That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

    Success   Time   Work  
    John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.202, Hackett Publishing
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