Quotes About Character

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.

The most perfect character is supposed to lie between those extremes; retaining an equal ability and taste for books, company, and business; preserving in conversation that discernment and delicacy which arise from polite letters; and in business, that probity and accuracy which are the natural result of a just philosophy.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education

It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Emerson said that an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man

Huxley did not look the warrior. But he had a warrior's ruthlessness. His dicta included the pronouncement: "The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Our conduct is not the basis for our salvation, but is influenced by our salvation.

God is a logical, rational being, though he does not necessarily conform to the laws of any human system of logic. The laws of logic are an aspect of his own character. Being logical is his nature and his pleasure. So the fact that he cannot be illogical is not a weakness. It may not be fairly described as a lack of power. Indeed it is a mark of his great power that he always acts and thinks consistently, that he can never be pushed into the inconsistencies that plague human life.

What you choose to do in your life, how you choose it, and how you deal with Work-domain difficulties (including being out of work or having to work two jobs to make ends meet) are also revealing of your personality style.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

If people are either mountain people or ocean people then I'm a mountain person. I love the ocean, the few times I get a chance to see it, but I'm a mountain girl.

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

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

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read.

While serving as a pallbearer for one of his Naval Academy classmates on a cold, rainy day at Arlington National Cemetery, my grandfather listened to a young officer suggest that he button up his raincoat to protect himself from the elements. The old man, raincoat flapping in the wind, looked at his solicitous subordinate and said, "You don't think I got where I am by taking care of my health, do you?

At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c***!

It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy.

I'm not President Bush