Helen Keller
(right) observed, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through trail and suffering is the soul strengthened.”
Today’s world is filled to the brim, or so it seems, with enough trials and suffering to last until the next millennium.
In trying times, we may be tempted to take shortcuts. But, as Beverly Sills reminds us,
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” When facing difficult times, what’s required is character, and lots of it.
None other than the father of our country, George Washington, wrote, “The most enviable of all titles: an honest man.”
Mr. Washington’s words prove once and for all that father indeed knows best: Character counts. It did in Washington’s time, it does now, and it always will.
About Character
"Sow an action, you reap a habit; sow a habit,
you reap a character; sow a character, you reap a destiny."
Frances E. Willard
"Character is formed by doing the thing we are supposed to do, when it
should be done, whether we feel like doing it or not."
Father Flanagan
"Character is what you are in the dark."
Dwight L. Moody
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great
moral crises maintain their moral neutrality."
Dante Alighieri
"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since
it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his
potentialities."
Charles DeGaulle
Circumstances Change,
Character Remains
"Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take
wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."
Horace Greeley
"Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and
acts, thought by thought, action by action."
Helen Gahagan Douglas
"The force of character is cumulative."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And Finally . . .
"Character building begins in infancy
and ends in death."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Character is the result of two things — mental attitude and the way
we spend our time."
Elbert Hubbard
"If you listen to your conscience, it will serve you as no other friend
you’ll ever know."
Loretta Young
"Personality is a gift; character is victory."
Taylor Hartman
