Quotes About Character

people don't choose what you do; they choose who you are. In

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Grace does not annul God's concern for holiness, nor should it ours.

We know our skills are insufficient for an activity with such vast consequences. We recognize that our hearts are too lacking in purity to lead others to holiness. Honest evaluation inevitably causes us to conclude that we do not have sufficient eloquence, wisdom, or character to be capable of turning others from spiritual death to eternal life.

Our identity determines what we do; what we do does not determine our identity.

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good.

Whether God chooses the ordinary path of rewarding our goodness with observable blessing, or the extraordinary path of blessing our obedience with trials that will strengthen our character and stretch our faith, his love is never lacking (Heb. 12:6-11).

Jesus loves us not because we are good but because he is.

Our preaching should reflect the uniqueness of our personalities, but our lives should

No truth calls louder for pastoral holiness than the link between a preacher's character and a sermon's reception. If

Speak the truth. Live the truth. Be the truth. Never let the faithless ones change any of those three principles.

If we delight in gossip, and are not content unless each neighbor is laid upon the dissecting table, we form a character unenviable indeed, and must be willing to bear the contempt of all the truly good, while we roll our bit of scandal as a sweet morsel under the tongue.

Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that betrays the impurity within. The contest between light and darkness, right and wrong, goes on; day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, our characters are being formed, and this is the all-important question which comes to us in accents ever growing fainter as we journey from the cradle to the grave, "Shall those characters be good or bad?"

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

What do we mean by spiritual development? Surely, the broadening and deepening of the mind till it regards the world in its true perspective, and the strengthening of the character so that the will is a tempered and unerring weapon in the charge of a man's soul. And this end is to be achieved only by the exercise of the mind upon the largest possible manifold of experience, and by the conflict of character with the alien forces of the world.

The true test of a man's character is not how much he has, but how much he is willing to give.

I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.

The true test of a man's character is how he behaves when no one is watching.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows

Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you.

My name is Anne; spelled with an e at the end." said Anne to Mrs. Thomas.