Quotes about Character
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
— Henry Ford
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
— Henry Ford
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
— Henry Ward Beecher