Quotes About Character

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with mean mind

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous with a mean mind.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

Yahweh is not unfettered but is constrained by a hard, relentless commitment made to Israel. The very character of Yahweh, as Yahweh has articulated that identity, gives Moses and Israel a toehold against God and a space from which to speak imperatives that Yahweh must heed.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

A resolute, decisive, open, courageous character with deep faith in God is what you want to develop.

Great. An asthmatic goon.

Lucky Cowboy and his clean hands. By chance you had a talent somebody wanted, and now you're able to afford principles. Good for you.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

General Douglas MacArthur was the most brilliant, most important, and most valuable military leader in American history—at least that's what Douglas MacArthur thought. When asked by a proper British gentlewoman if he had ever met the famous general, Dwight D. Eisenhower—himself about to march into history—supposedly replied, "Not only have I met him, ma'am; I studied dramatics under him for five years in Washington and four years in the Philippines.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.