Quotes About Character

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No hay nada mas elocuente que un zapato adecuado. Se puede decir mucho de una persona por sus zapatos.

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school.

But you can tell so much about someone from what they wear.

Slowly, I have learned to judge myself by whether I am being the person I want to be and living by my values, not calculating the value of my possessions or accomplishments.

She decided that the greatest gift she could give her children would not be wealth or material things, but rather the gifts she could leave in them. In their hearts, in their minds, in their attitudes toward life

Great leaders are great because people trust and respect them, not because they have power.

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln

When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.

As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth

The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.

There are no exact duplicates in nature. Each human is unique. When we seek to be like the next person, we lose autonomy. Failure often is the result of following the crowd. If the character of the person we are following lacks strength, honesty, and courage, that person's weaknesses can become ours. Conversely, following someone who exhibits those attributes reinforces one's own resolve and character.

Character is most determined by integrity and courage.

When we were young, we unconsciously chose friends with similar values. We didn't like dealing with individuals, for example, who were not truthful. They concerned us. Lying seemed so silly, so unnecessary. Nobody likes dishonesty. I remember associating with people who often were not the most popular in the school, but they were respected. And one of the reasons they were respected was because they had integrity.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That's the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The message of Martin Luther King, Jr.—that we should be judged on the content of our character, not on the color of our skin—dwells in the American soul; so does the menace of the Ku Klux Klan. History hangs precariously in the balance between such extremes. Our fate is contingent upon which element—that of hope or that of fear—emerges triumphant.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.

Whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much," Christ said (Luke 16:10).

let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth" (Prov. 27:2).

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

Virtue requires denying one's baser instincts—i.e., human nature—and doing what is right.