Quotes About Character

moral character gets formed through hardship, through overcoming obstacles, through enduring despite difficulties. Courage, for example, would be impossible in a world without pain. The apostle Paul testified to this refining quality of suffering when he wrote that 'suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.'13

Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God's discipline isn't pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it.

We see them reporting the words and actions of a man who called them to as exacting a level of integrity as any religion has ever known. They were willing to live out their beliefs even to the point of ten of the eleven remaining disciples being put to grisly deaths, which shows great character. "In terms of honesty, in terms of truthfulness, in terms of virtue and morality, these people had a track record that should be envied.

Ann rolled her eyes. She had a marvelous eye roll, refined through long discipline, precise as acupuncture.

After the derailment I wondered obsessively about the great whatever. Much seemed to ride on the character of the whatever, including the degree and tenacity of my guilt in the matter. But miles pass, years climb up your shoulders. My insistence on Mom's and Dad's joyous afterlife gradually dimmed.

The end of learning, he said, is to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him" by acquiring "true virtue" (Hughes 631). This reinforces and expands Sidney's point that the end of learning is virtuous action.

In this connection it should be mentioned that in describing the regimes, Socrates does not speak of "ideologies" belonging to them; he is concerned with the character of each kind of regime and with the end which it manifestly and explicitly pursues, as well as with the political justification of the end in question in contradistinction to any transpolitical justification stemming from cosmology, theology, metaphysics, philosophy of history, myth, and the like.

Glaukon makes the issue manifest by comparing the perfectly unjust man to the perfect artisan, whereas he conceives of the perfectly just man as a simple man who has no quality other than justice.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

son muchos los padres que dan por sentado que las buenas notas y las calificaciones elevadas son la mejor garantía y la clave para la felicidad futura. Pero se equivocan. Si quieres que tu hijo esté sano, sea rico y sea sabio, entonces tu prioridad no deberían ser los resultados relacionados con lo cognitivo, como las notas, sino la medida de su diligencia, con rasgos como la honestidad, la integridad y el autocontrol.

It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.

Lies don't solve problems it just make it worst ...so liars beware

Chi semina virtù fama raccoglie.

Non appena nasce la virtù, nasce contro di lei l'invidia, e farà prima il corpo a perdere la sua ombra che la virtù la sua invidia.

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

Atunci când o persoan? investeÈ™te inconÈ™tient È™i în mod excesiv energie, timp È™i atenÈ›ie într-o tr?s?tur? de caracter dominant?, acea tr?s?tur? devine centrul personalit??ii ei, iar masca È™i persoana devin una È™i aceeaÈ™i.

You are what you are because that is what you really want to be! We make decisions and those decisions make us who were are! You can judge anything in the world by this. God builds up and the Devil tears down.

Faith is walking with God. If you get up in the mornings angry and screaming at everybody, you are not demonstrating that you have a bad temper so much as you are demonstrating that you don't have faith. When you walk with God, you demonstrate His nature.

Si conocieras el tiempo tan bien como yo m no hablarías de matarlo. El tiempo es todo un personaje

The character of a 'lunatic' is not, I believe, very difficult to acquire: but it is amazingly difficult to get rid of.

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn't. I failed myself.

We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan," he'd said.

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan