Strength   

1. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.  Robert Kiyosaki
2. Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.  Mahatma Gandhi
4. Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.  Author Unknown
5. In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.  Author Unknown
6. Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.  Katherine Dunham
7. If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.   Mohandas K. Gandhi
8. A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.  Christopher Reeve
9. Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.  August Wilson
10. It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.  Elbert Hubbard
11. It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thoughtout principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.  Alex Karras
12. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.  Maya Angelou
13. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.  Arnold Schwarzenegger
14. Strength is a matter of the madeup mind.  John Beecher
15. The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.  Author Unknown
16. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  Rachel Carson
17. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.  Eleanor Roosevelt
18. When I dare to be powerful  to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.  Audre Lorde 

Character 

1. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.  Helen Keller
3. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.  John W. Holt, Jr.
4. Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.  Jim Rohn
6. Character, not circumstance, makes the person.  Booker T. Washington
7. Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.  Author Unknown
8. Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
   Watch your words, for they become actions.
   Watch your actions, for they become habits.
   Watch your habits, for they become character.
   Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.  Author Unknown
9. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.  Dale Carnegie
10. Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.  J. C. Watts
11. Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.  Theodore Roosevelt
12. Character is simply habit long continued.  Plutarch
13. Character  the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life  is the source from which self respect springs.  Joan Didion
14. I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.  Rita Mero
15. No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.  Anne Frank
17. People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.  Eleanor Roosevelt
19. The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.  Abigail Van Buren
20. The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.  Isabelle Eberhardt
21. The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it.  Author Unknown
22. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
23. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.  James A. Froude
24. What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.  Leonardo da Vinci
26. The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.  Thomas Babington Macaulay