Quotes About Character

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

I wasn't the leader of any gang. I was for Billy all the time.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

What you invest your time in defines who you are.

The way we spend our time defines who we are.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.