Quotes About Character

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.

More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.

Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.