Thomas Paine Quotes

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I am consistent rather than courageous.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

Your strength lies in this, that you are not absolute but resolute.

The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.

I'm always strong. I'm tough.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.

I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

I just can't surrender. I can't start something and then surrender because of political reasons. I just don't do that, and that goes back to me, why I keep running when I should probably take it easy, even though I have no hobbies, and enjoy the rest of my life.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.