Quotes About Character

For we form so extravagant an idea of certain characters that we would be incapable of identifying one of them with the familiar features of a person of our acquaintance.

Depth of character, or a melancholy expression on a woman's face would freeze his senses, which would, however, immediately melt at the sight of healthy, abundant, rosy human flesh.

It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character presented me with a sort of negative proof of my own.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.

Joy is God's basic character. Joy is his eternal destiny. God is the happiest being in the universe.

Whatever repeatedly enters the mind occupies the mind, eventually shapes the mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

God's purpose in guidance is not to get us to perform the right actions. His purpose is to help us become the right kind of people.

4. When a man fighteth against his sin only with arguments from the issue or the punishment due unto it, this is a sign that sin hath taken great possession of the will, and that in the heart there is a superfluity of naughtiness.

He that would be like unto God must be sure to love him, or all other endeavours to that purpose will be in vain; and he that loves God sincerely will be like him.

In the first way, it is the communication of the character or image that is on the seal unto the thing that is sealed, or that the impression of the seal is set unto. In answer hereunto, the sealing of the Spirit should consist in the communication of his own spiritual nature and likeness unto the souls of believers; so this sealing should materially be the same with our sanctification.

It is true, our interest in God is not built upon our holiness; but it is as true that we have none without it.

Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like unto him thereby.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

Look at you. You'd trade anything for a warm look. I'm telling you here and now, I want to see the starch in your character cultivated. If you are looking for reassurance, you can be fooled. If you forget yourself and study others, you will not be fooled.

You ever run into the Phantom Dog? One of the scariest characters I ever encountered in my whole career.

Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I have indicated, he thinks that people more or less naturally agree in their moral judgments and count the same qualities of character as virtues and vices; it is rather the enthusiasms of religion and superstition that lead to differences, not to mention the corruptions of political power.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Saya yakin ujian pertama bagi orang besar adalah kerendahan hati.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like? Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.