Quotes About Character

He always said his reputation is all of himself a man can leave behind when he goes back to the elements. Honesty and honor, he said, courage and grace. Those four are what make a man. That's what he taught me, sire.

And character is not merely rare, it is hard to detect soon enough. Although nothing brings it out like matrimony.

Within the confines of the marriage covenant, God teaches us to sacrifice, putting the needs of others ahead of our own needs. This is what Paul says in Eph 5:25: "Husbands, love your wives, just as also Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her" (NKJV). Becoming a better husband means you must learn to sacrifice. You must learn to put the needs of your wife and family ahead of your own desires. This requires character.

Es el cuidadoso cultivo de una manera de vivir centrada en Dios, semejante a Cristo, dirigida por el carácter y el sentido común.

When God in the Bible diverts from His normal pattern of referring to Himself as "the Lord" or "God" and adds descriptives such as "Provider" or "Healer" or "Peacemaker," then we should take note that He is describing how He will act toward us! This is how God manages our expectations of Him. This is who God is and how He will always act toward us.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Measure your wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.

So content people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything. That is who you want your children to be.

We also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. ROMANS 5:3–5 NKJV

Only if you mix knowledge with attitude, character, perseverance, vision, diligence, and extreme levels of work will your college degree produce for you.

Si es un tonto y llega a hacerse rico, será el rey de los tontos. Si es generoso y llega a hacerse rico, será más generoso.

If you wouldn't want your mother to buy the item or the service then don't sell it.

People who change their values, their ethics, are not trustworthy and should be avoided.

If you're not intentional about growing your kids' characters and ability to handle money, you can work your whole life to build wealth only to have it end up ruining them.

President Teddy Roosevelt argued that organized athletics could be the means for instilling the character and values deemed necessary to make America a global power in the century to come. Sports could breed a sense of hard work, self-discipline, and the win-at-all-cost ethic of competition. Roosevelt once said, presumably while swinging a big stick,

We do indeed encounter new parts of ourselves by stripping away the veils of our slumber; we become aware of our essential character and are opened to capabilities beyond limits self-imposed through ignorance,

It was a though we'd been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

If the father call us to act, mothers call us to be.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

It's been said that you become the average of the five people you associate with the most.

Or was it just the eyes of the watcher that gave character to the world?

Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)