T. B. Joshua Quotes

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

The force of character is cumulative.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Character is perfectly educated will.

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.

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

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.