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Essay on Qualities That Build Strong Character

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Does your character have what it takes? Sam Haskell states in his book, Promises I Made My Mother, “When you take away everything, when you strip a person of the superficial add-ons, all they have left is their true self”(14). This quote stood out to me because in the world today we base everything we have on physical appearance or by how many material things we can collect. In college we will get to experience many new things and our character will be tested, I plan to work hard to uphold my morals and stay true to myself. Sam also says that “Character is the core of our being” (14); it is what really holds us together and what we should strive to be true to. To me, the qualities that make a strong character are honesty, hard work, and …show more content…

I believe honesty is the best thing to build a friendship on. The second quality that makes a strong character is hard work. By working hard through the next few years I hope to achieve my goal of becoming a pharmacist. Hard work always has its rewards later down the road; they may not come instantly but take time to build up this past year without any kind of warning my dad lost his job in January. After he lost his job, I took on more responsibilities to help out as much as I could. I worked to try to take some stress off my dad by working in the yard so that he would not have to, I cut back on going out on the weekends with my friends, and working hard in school to make sure my grades were really good. I also had to work hard to have patience with God to answer my prayer that my dad would find another job. Finally, almost a year later in December, God answered my prayer. My dad found out he got the job he interviewed for on Christmas day. That was that best Christmas present I could have asked for. I was rewarded in that I knew my dad’s burden had been lifted. Not long ago, my cousin said to me, “College is going to be tough, but if you think about how long your life is your college years will fly by. What you do in college will define what is going to happen in the rest of your life.” Right then I decided that I was going to give it my all and work hard to get the best grades possible.

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