Character Building Quotes

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Some defeats are better than victories. A defeat endured as the result of contest conducted in a fair and honorable manner is a thousand times more creditable to the defeated party than a victory gained by all the mean and unscrupulous arts of the wire pullers.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of happiness.

The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!

Leaders are made, they are not born

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

I think our jobs as parents is to raise our children with empathy - to figure out who this little character is, almost from birth, and then guide them to fulfill their best potential.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

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