Quotes About Character

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.

There are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman

sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Right living is a way to right thinking.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.