Quotes About Character

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

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

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

More wealth doesn't fix your life. More wealth makes you more of what you already are.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.