Quotes About Character

We need to become different people in our responses to others, building character traits that allow us to handle their craziness without becoming victims. When we become different, people will respond to us differently. But most important, we'll have the strength of character and the boundaries that allow us to be emotionally healthy, no matter what others do.

There's nothing wrong with a person's temperament. But there could be a lot wrong with their behaviors, attitudes, and choices. They've been making those choices for a long time, so it's not something we can easily change. We can't guarantee that they'll make good choices, but we can choose how we respond to those choices.

Integrity is who we are when we're alone. It's when there's alignment between who we are on the inside and how we come across to others on the outside.

We can't overlook the impact of faith on our lives, either. I've found that my resources for solving relationship problems are limited, but trusting God to build character in my life is the greatest source of strength.

When we meet the great men and women of the Bible face-to-face, we may be surprised to discover just how much like us they are. It is faith in a great God that makes a great man or woman of God.

I have discovered, assuming you are Good People, that you can help more people when you have money. Good People will be good people with or without money. Evil people will be evil people with or without money.

GOOD People are GOOD People. Selfish, Greedy, Self-Centered, and Evil People will always be the same. Money has nothing to do with it.

Elaine: He saved my life twice. He's the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises. Michael: Yes. It is a point of pride with him. But please — don't mistake it for a virtue.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

Part of our problem is that we confuse God's reliability with God's predictability. God is perfectly reliable. His character never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His word never fails. He is love. God does not lie, and there is no hint of darkness in Him. But reliability does not equal predictability. To say that God is always good, faithful, or loving doesn't mean God always makes sense ahead of time.

What you believe and what you trust are always revealed in how you live and act.

Trust always reveals itself in behavior. Trust in Jesus is no exception; it involves much more than just mentally agreeing with information about him. Trusting Jesus, like trusting other things, should show up in how we actually live.

In the reverse economy of Jesus, the things that break us, God inverts to shape us.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Teddy Roosevelt didn't use a mouthpiece.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

Your self-portait decides your conduct.

What You Are, You Reproduce

He also cut another bit we liked—a character named Gravy Wallace who loved gravy. That was it—Gravy Wallace loved gravy. Maybe the showrunner was right and it was stupid. But maybe Gravy could've been the next Disco Stu.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

No matter how bad the lord is, the lout become a lord is ten times worse.