Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.
— Schiller
Adversity, not constant prosperity, is what truly preserves genuine virtue.
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— Helen Adams Keller
We have, all of us, visited beautifully laid-out landscape gardens. The beauty we admire in them is not the result of a …
— Unknown
Not education, but character, is man's greatest need and man's greatest safeguard.
— Dr. Spencer
No more fatal error can be cherished than that any character can be complete without the religious element. The essentia…
— J. L. Pickard
A good heart, benevolent feelings, and a balanced mind, lie at the foundation of character. Other things may be deemed f…
— John Todd
Adversity is the true scale to weigh friends in.
— William Shakespeare
