Quotes About Character

An army is always a copy of the society it serves- with the difference that it gives social relations a concentrated character, carrying both their positive and negative features to an extreme.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

leadership is the medium through which one expresses one's deepest values.

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.

John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.

And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.

Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

You don't teach virtue by preaching virtue. You teach virtue by requiring virtuous behavior, so that virtuous behavior becomes a habit.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

But, as is sometimes the case with good people, he was perhaps liked more for this little foible than for his good qualities.

A woman's character is her lack of character.

a man, no matter how selfish, how malevolent he may be, always follows principles, while a woman always follows only impulses. Never forget this and never feel safe with the woman you love.

And you are the first woman I've ever loved,' he continued calmly. 'I love you so much that it makes me suffer, but I'm not suffering because I can't possess you. I'm suffering because it's impossible for me to love you. It tears my heart apart that such a magnificent nature has resulted in such an ugly character.'   

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.

The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Humble people are dignified, not because they believe their behavior can be an effective tool to control others, but because they have made dignity a part of their character.

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't seem to care to talk about yourself," [Lefevre] said to Flagler. "I prefer to let what I have done speak for me," Flagler replied. "By their works ye shall know them," Lefevre suggested. "Yes, that's it," Flagler said - as eagerly as he had said anything, according to his interviewer.

Ebenezer Scrooge is no castoff drunk, but the very emblem of economic achievement.

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

suits of Anderson and Sheppard, the shirts of Harman, the shoes of Lobb, and self-refrigerating conscience can achieve.

The most beautiful women I've ever observed are those that have exchanged a self-focused life for a Christ-focused one. They are confident, but not in themselves. Instead of self-confidence, they radiate with Christ-confidence.

In no way did God want me to settle for one of the typical "jerks" who were a dime a dozen. He wanted me to save myself for a man who had His very nature and character within him. And He wanted me to trust Him enough to bring that special man to me in His perfect time.