Quotes About Character

Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

A virtuous person is better then virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal.

A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.

If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.

A man's measure is his will.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Cain leaned over and whispered in his ear. "Don't tell anybody, but I'm just a good old-fashioned gangster.

He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him

the makeshift character that springs from speaking and looking on and letting everything pass and then the loneliness of being left here endless lost to my lethargy like a dripping tap

Jesus' true strength was not revealed in his ability to teach and lead the multitudes. It was manifested in his willingness to make himself nothing, to suffer, and to die. I had enough strength to exhaust myself studying, mentoring, and teaching, but I did not possess sufficient strength to be nothing.

In these early anonymous seasons, God graciously grants us the opportunity to wrestle with our appetites before other lives are at stake, to struggle with our passions privately before moral collapse affects the innocent publicly.

Christian spirituality is not a life project for becoming a better person." —EUGENE PETERSON

The Father's work in us does not sleep—though in spiritual winters he retracts all advertisement. And when he does so, he is purifying our faith, strengthening our character, conserving our energy, and preparing us for the future. The sleepy days of winter hide us so that seductive days of summer will not ruin us.

You don't want modesty," Maya Angelou once said. "You want humility. Humility

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.

Judge Brassard, they decided, would be played by Alan Alda, the sensitive guy.

One dies the way he lives.

Virtue was ever double-edged.