Quotes About Character

An upright judge, a learned judge!

His face is the worst thing about him.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The soul of this man is in his clothes.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Let all the learned say what they can,'Tis ready money makes the man.

It follows, therefore, that the church's evangelism ought to be one in which all the counsel of God is made known to men. We need a recovery of belief in the converting and sanctifying power of the living Word of God in the teaching of the pulpit, and its ability to transform the lives of men and produce in them the lineaments and fruits of mature Christian character.

Aquele que só for atraído pelas honrarias e pela ambição do mando, sem esperança de produzir trabalho útil, é indigno da posição que disputa e incapaz de exercer o poder.

Even though this mysterious ninja is evil, I think he is sooo cool.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

What is good is only a matter of opinion in secular society. Using society's own standard of goodness, careful observation of the bigger picture may reveal that a particular good has been outweighed by general evil. When a society defines its own morality and then applies it to itself, that society can justify its own serious breaches of character. It is able to lower the standard to the detriment of all.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

If cows wouldn't eat it, I won't play on it.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

There were no tears in her. The wound went too deep, or she was not so constituted to give way to it. Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.

everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.