Eliza Cook Quotes

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.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.