Character Quotes

"For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes – not that you won or lost – but how you played the Game."

Grantland Rice

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

Heywood Broun

"Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose – it teaches you about life."

Billie Jean King

"The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it."

Confucius

"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

Charles Dickens

"The world exists because of people of good character; without them it would crumble into dust."

Thiruvalluvar

"Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world."

"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck."

Joseph Addison