Margot Asquith Quotes

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Many men and women in the world demonstrate great willpower and self-discipline in overcoming bad habits and the weaknesses of the flesh.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

The force of character is cumulative.

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Courage is not always about action. It takes courage to do nothing rather than do something that you do not believe in or understand.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

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.