Quotes About Character

He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

He who hates vice hates men.

The fact is, God is not too concerned whether we are happy or not. But he is very concerned over whether we are holy.

God never intends for our lives to be shaped by conformity to a list of abstract rules. Rather, he intends for them to be shaped by a joyous pursuit of greater and greater likeness to the character of our covenant Lord, our Father.

I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be and I am not the man I hope to be, but, by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.

There will always be dark characters, but her life is good; it is as she wishes it to be.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

But to grow spiritually means to live increasingly as Jesus would in our unique place—to perceive what Jesus would perceive if he looked through our eyes, to think what he would think, to feel what he would feel, and therefore to do what he would do.

Like all obsessive characters, Merrick was inordinately boring. He was uninterested in books, music, politics, people or, seemingly, even sex. His studied politeness was a mask that must conceal a slow-boiling malevolence. I can't see what he could have responded to in an irrepressible jokesmith like Jimmy Porter. He could squeeze out a frosty smile only when someone like a lovingly hated star collapsed with coronary.

This pep talk was sometimes combined with a rueful reminder to himself about the loneliness of ethical leadership: 'the post of honor is a private station.

Buddy was offered a number of more important jobs. He turned them all down, but helped the Leadership Council find other good candidates. His lack of ambition came to be seen as great humility. The birds loved him even more.

Jezebel spirit is ruthless and deceptive, even to the person who manifests this spirit.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.