Quotes on Character
From Leaderpedia
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
- Max Depree, Leadership Is An Art, pg. 87
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper they lose their worth.
- Chuck Norris
Real success in life means the individual’s conquest of himself; it means how he has bettered himself not how he bettered his fortune. The great question of life is not “What have I?” But “What am I?”
- William George Jordan
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
- Lou Holtz
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
- D.L. Moody
A little thing is a little thing but faithfulness in a little thing is a great thing.
- Hudson Taylor
No man should be pitied because every day of his life he faces, a hard, stubborn problem . . . It is the man who has no problems to solve, no hardships to face, who is to be pitied . . . He as nothing in his life which will strengthen and form his character, nothing to call out his latent powers and deepen and widen his hold on life.
- Booker T. Washington
No horse gets anywhere until it is harnessed. No steam or gas drives anything until is is confined. No Niagra is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life grows great until is it focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Henry Emerson Fosdick
Character: When a tiger dies, he leaves his skin behind. When a man dies, he leaves behind his name.
- Korean proverb
