Quotes About Character

People can do all manner of stupid things. Doesn't mean they're bad people, necessarily.

He was a mesmerizing character, with deep-set gypsylike eyes, the longish hair, the poetic darkness.

It's actually Jane Austen who pushes Louisa Musgrove off the slippery rocks.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

I have to put the worst of her into her.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL. Earl

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace. Grace is a little girl Who would not wash her face.

First and foremost, a leader should strive to be an individual of flawless character, technical competence, and moral courage.

You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]

his genius, during his earlier manhood, was of that exclusively agricultural character which applies itself to the cultivation of wild oats.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.

To be conformed to the one who has become human—that is what being really human means.[77.]

The word of the justifying grace of God never departs from its position as the final word; it never yields itself simply as a result that has been achieved. . . . The word remains irreversibly the last; for otherwise it would be reduced to the quality of what is calculable, a merchandise, and would thereby be robbed of its divine character. Grace would be venal and cheap. It would not be a gift.1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

On the other hand, every virtue and every good deed turns worthless if pride creeps into it - which happens whenever in some fashion we glory in our goodness.

Frequenting evil friends is bound to make your own behavior evil; People of Tingri, abandon any friendships that are negative. – Padampa Sangye

Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

Our view of God determines how we live for Him.

Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

Manhood had come to him, both in character and demeanour, not as it comes to most young lads, an eagerly-desired and presumptuously-asserted claim, but as a rightful inheritance, to be received humbly, and worn simply and naturally.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.