Quotes About Character

God and Scripture alone are to be our standard of conduct and character.

He'd write a character for himself. His character would be tall, much taller than he is now. And his sisters would recognize him as dashing. He'd have personal freedom, his own, a way to escape, to escape from them all.

Would a coward or a thief remain a coward or a thief, even if his memory slate was wiped clean? Or could he somehow become courageous and noble? Could not knowing you had a history of cowardice allow you to suddenly become brave? Were bravery and altruism learned qualities or innate ones?

And while looks deteriorated with time, a great personality and great chemistry only strengthened

Just because you were good at something didn't mean it was a match with your personality or psyche.

And most important to her, he possessed a great sense of humor,

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are." ?—Arthur Golden

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. —Albert Camus

Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.

We today lack a theology of growth. And so we need to learn how we "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3:18). In particular, we need to learn to cooperate with "the means of grace" that God has ordained for the transformation of the human personality. Our participation in these God-ordained "means" will enable us increasingly to take into ourselves Christ's character and manner of life.

If there is an abiding theme in The Pursuit of Happiness it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories. How you then grapple with everything life throws in your path—and how your own sense of ethics dictates so much about your dealings with life's larger questions—determines so much. "Character

Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.

The manner in which people and movements behave at the point of victory can be the most revealing thing about them.

A strange, pale figure emerged—Pendergast?—and she felt herself suddenly in his arms, lifted bodily as if she were a child again, her head cradled against his chest. She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.

The apostle James tells us that a man who can control his tongue can control the rest of his body as well. This goes double for the man who is putting what the tongue does into a more permanent setting.

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

We are not only tempted by wealth, we are tempted to blame wealth.

One writer has helpfully noted that education is about formation, not so much information.

So it is a grace and a gift from God to excel in your work. It is another gift from God to reap the benefits of excelling in your work. Though they usually go together (but not always), the two must not be confused, and the order of the two must never be reversed. Doing this will enable us to keep our priorities right where they are supposed to be: "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold" (Prov. 22:1).

if the athletic program is not helping the kids understand God, man, sin, and salvation, then the program is failing, regardless of the win/loss record. But the same thing is true of the "classroom program.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn't honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.