Quotes About Character

Our world is hungry for genuinely changed people. Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6 Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort.

If we are full of compassion, it will be revealed; if we are full of bitterness, that also will be revealed. It

Discipline is to present us before grace, it does not produce grace to make sense.

God has given us the capacity for developing moral character, the ability to become glorious beings that can live in communion with the Triune Reality of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for eternity.

Our world is hungry for genuinely changed people. Leo Tolstoy observes, "Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."6

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.

I wish I could say, "No more Mr. Nice Guy," but the boat sailed on that one a long time ago.

Everyone in the world is a Charlie. The trick is to figure out which Charlie you're going to be. Charlie Manson. Charlie Starkweather. Or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." "Charlie Chaplin." "Charlie Parker." "Charly… from Flowers for Algernon." "Charlie Brown.

There are Hellions down there with more honor than half the humans I meet.

Who you work for is more important than what you do

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Too often, small towns invaded by urban expatriates lose their character and physical beauty to overdevelopment.

Not many men ever saw Washington disturbed by bad news; it was much more likely to have the opposite effect on him, acting like a goad that brought out the best in his character, stiffening his resolve to win against odds that would have defeated a less resolute man before he began.

The hero can never be a relativist.

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.

Well, I'm not a crook.

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.