Quotes About Character

God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.

Sanctification in any area of our lives always expresses this double dimension—a putting off and a putting on, as it were. Speech and silence, appropriately expressed, are together the mark of the mature.3

Of all the books which can be put into your hands, those which relate the labors and suffering of good men are the most interesting and instructive.

If we are not captured by his personality and character, then all our declarations of thanksgiving are like the gratitude of a wife to a husband for the money she gets from him to use in her affair with another man.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Nasser taught the Egyptians to be cowards, opportunists, and hypocrites.

But if Nasser's gift to the Egyptians was their sense of pride, Mubarak's curse is to have created a cultural climate where the only rewarded character traits are shameless opportunism and lack of dignity.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Taste… is the only morality…. Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

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