Quotes About Character

Dad said I had no respect for money and that if I didn't learn when I was little when was I going to learn? Kids who get Bart Simpson dolls at the drop of a hat turn into punks who steal from convenience stores, 'cos they wind up thinking they can have whatever they want, just like that. So instead of a Bart doll he bought me an ugly porcelain pig with a slot in its back, and now I'll grow up to be okay, now I won't turn into a punk.

Humility. Never announce that you are a knight, simply behave as one. You are better than no one, and no one is better than you.

I'd rather lay an egg in a box than go and steal an ox.

In adversity people regain all the virtues which they lose in prosperity (30 January 1855)

'Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me,But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!

A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook.

Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

Without having to confine my dreams to the destiny outlined in one's name and the expectations bestowed during one's naming, I was left free to embrace the natural turns of my character and to determine my own future, drawing from the deepest well on unnamed possibilities.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Ezar25e is a great person.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.