Quotes About Character

Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.

The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don't limit God's character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward.

If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?

The method of forming men to virtue by example, is, of all others, the shortest, the most easy, and the best adapted to all circumstances and dispositions.

One of the best maxims in determining our course in life is, to select, at the outset, that in which virtue and principle will be least likely to be put to a test, and in which, from the nature of the calling, a man may bring around him such associations and influences as will be an auxiliary in keeping him in the path of virtue.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Ne pas devenir pauvre avec une âme de pauvre. La misère avilit. Le pauvre devient laid et prend l'autobus, se lave moins, sent la transpiration, compte ses sous, perd sa seigneurie et ne peut plus sincèrement mépriser. On ne méprise bien peu ce que l'on possède et domine. Goethe méprisait mieux que Rousseau.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Weakness of attitude become weakness of character.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.