Quotes About Character

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate.

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.