Quotes About Character

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

When you hear that people are talking about you, remember this: 'Birds always peck at the best fruit.'

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Every successful person did, what no one else was willing to do!

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.

Be in life what you want your kids to be when they grow up.

Some leaders manipulate and intimidate while others demonstrate and motivate. Be the leader you would follow!

Don't find comfort in being followed because you're feared, but rather, be followed because you're respected. That's true leadership.

Don't fall in love with someone who says the right things, fall in love with someone who does the right things.

Do not fall in love with the face and body. Instead, fall in love with the spirit, heart and character.

Infatuating yourself with someone simply for what they look like on the outside is like choosing your favorite food based on color instead of taste. It makes no sense. Its innate, invisible, unquantifiable characteristics that create lasting attraction.

Search a good heart but don't waste life in searching a beautiful face, because beautiful things are not always good but good things are always beautiful.

If you'd be loved, be worthy to be loved.

Girls fall in love with funny guys. Personality catches the heart. Not looks.

It's not what a person tells you that matters. It's how they treat you that reveals their true feelings. Their character is revealed not by the promises they make, but the promises they keep.

Girls need a man who will treat them good, not like those lil boys who claimed they could.

Act like a princess he'll make you his queen, act like a hoe and we'll see how far you go...

Pay attention to the way your boyfriend treats others, because one day he will treat you that way as well.

Getting a lot of girls isn't something to be proud of, keeping one is.

Love is not primarily a relationship only to a specific person, it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not towards one 'object' of Love.

Ladies: An intelligent man will open your mind, a handsome man will open your eyes, and a gentleman will open your heart.

Beauty only captures attention but personality captures the heart.