The purpose of education should be character-building.

Learn more about the character traits you have and those you want to develop

If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

The only measure of judging a human being is through that person's character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

Success in business is important. Success as a human being with values, character, kindness, and love is much more important.

Failures make character, not success.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

It is in the trifles, and when he is off his guard, that a man best shows his character.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices we have made through life.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

A fanatic is a man who redoubles his efforts after he has forgotten his aims.

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.