Quotes About Character

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

he was very intemperate, and could not write until he had quickened his thoughts with large draughts of rum and water; that he was, in short, a bad character, and not fit to be placed in such a situation.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

Money brings about good consequences – helps us live valuable lives – only when joined with 'virtues'. Virtues are good abilities of mind and character.

Choose the right friends to live in the right world.

My best friend is the one who builds my character and improves my life.

True friendship is premised on a strong character.

Be nice to people. On phone and in-person. Don't wait to know a person before you treat them well; treat them well because you're a good person. That's how true friends live.

Befriend good people, for their spirit will influence you.

Let your friendship with God be real in your life through your conduct, character and choices. Be a best friend of God.

Good manners were a part of his inheritance, like left-handedness or hemophilia.

The Christian] does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. . . —C.S. Lewis

Jesus wasn't seeking His own honor, but rather modeling the Honor Principle to the ones He was sent to.

Jesus learned obedience by the things He suffered. Peter learned obedience by the things he suffered. Paul learned obedience by the things he suffered. What about you? Have you learned? Or are you hard, calloused, cold, bitter, and resentful? Then you did not learn obedience.

The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. —Oswald Chambers

The truth is we are defined by our actions, not by our intentions.

Father, I want to continue to always grow into a more intimate relationship with You. Expose the areas of my life that hinder me from being Christlike, and cause my life to reflect the character of my precious Savior and Lord.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

A minister or a Christian is what he lives, not what he preaches.

The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. —Oswald Chambers L

Be ye perfect is not. . .a command to do the impossible. [God] is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command.

God is not looking for an outward form of holiness; He wants an inward change of heart,…

True love is founded in the truth of who God really is.