Quotes About Character

A story is a succession of motivations and reactions.

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

The harder the life, the finer the person.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

Preach the Gospel with your life.

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

If you don't want your life to be 'messed up', don't fool around with those who have messed up theirs.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life