Quotes About Character

Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.

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American Conservatives maintain that the finished character of a grown man is mainly due to congenital characteristics, while American Radicals maintain, on the contrary, that education is everything and heredity nothing. I cannot agree with either of these two extreme positions, nor

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

the character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly.

Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation

hardly Africa. Not a stone has a familiar cast; the sky and the earth meet like strangers, and the touch of the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things. Such is Molo. Its first glance presages the character I later learn — a stern country

How can you tell a little about your whole child?

We need to recognize that lack of confidence does not equal humility. In fact, genuinely humble people have enormous confidence because it rests in a great God.

The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

When God's Word is deliberately internalized, it will be authentically externalized because it's no longer what we do—it's part of who we are.

Affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. Romans 5:3–4

He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold. Job 23:10

Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.

The truth is, God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion, and destiny.

Rid yourselves of all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander. 1 Peter 2:1

When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom. Proverbs 11:2

The imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit… is very valuable in God's eyes. 1 Peter 3:4

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but faithful people are His delight. Proverbs 12:22

When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars. John 8:44

Relief arises from consistency—from being the same person at the shopping mall as we are at Sunday worship.

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but who can find a trustworthy man? Proverbs 20:6

Godliness is not perfection.

God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more.