Quotes About Character

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

A cat is only itself.

Style is the answer to everything.

Curtis was just a chip off old Franky only she had much better legs. Poor Franky didn't have any legs but he had a wonderful brain. In some other country he would have made

Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.

He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character

his temper was so impetuous, his indolence so invincible, and his vicious habits so deeply rooted, that he made no progress.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! How short his time! Consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far "truer" in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth

If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud

History reveals a person's deeds—their outward character but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life rounded by a dream—unpenetrated, unguessed.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever

Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.

To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way, to cultivate some particular form of asceticism ... but to be a man." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

A. W. Tozer says, A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

Escribe tus críticas en la arena, y tus cumplidos en el mármol».

when he has to risk everything on his leap, and in the spiritual domain Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold by common sense and leap into what He says. . . . Trust entirely in God, and when He brings you to the venture, see that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis, only one out of a crowd is daring enough to bank his faith in the character of God.2

his beard is about thirty centimeters long, grizzled and salted and bifurcated. It has so much character that it's probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.

It has so much character that it's probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.