logo

Quotes About Character

An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To see a man's true colors, tell him you're saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman's true colors, tell her you're poor.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.
~ Liza M. Wiemer
Values are the definition of our actions in life
~ Armin Houman
The only thing you have totalcontrol over is who you choose to be.Be the best you can be.
~ Domonique Bertolucci
We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.
~ Clare of Assisi
The things that we love tell us what we are.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
~ Saadi
God loves you because of whom you are but he blesses you because of what you do.
~ Mike Murdock
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
~ Julian Assange
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
~ Confucius
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
~ C. S. Lewis
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
~ Epictetus
God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love
~ Richard Wurmbrand
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
~ Saint Augustine
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
~ Confucius
Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.
~ Gary Chapman
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
~ Albert Einstein
What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.
~ Bob Jones, Sr.
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!
~ Kurt Tucholsky
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
~ Confucius
There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
~ David Ogden Stiers