Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.
Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.
It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.
The real Da’wah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
Habits change into character.
All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.
People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character.
Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone’s reputation, and you don’t have to talk about what he stands for.
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
A Man’s management of his own purse speaks volumes about character.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of performance accelerates.
Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.