Quotes About Character

Let God mold your heart, and He will also enhance your appearance as you are transformed into His likeness.

Lord, I wait on You and listen for Your voice. Speak to my heart about the things I need to hear. Teach me all I need to know. Thank You for the great blessings that await anyone who waits at Your door and listens for Your voice. In these times of waiting on You, may the character of Christ be formed in me and my faith be increased.

Mitt Romney stepped forward and called out Trump for what he clearly was—"a phony, a fraud.

The base price of admission is a willingness to accept that an unstable, pathological liar leads it and pretend otherwise.

Courage is not standing up to a ludicrous man-child like Donald Trump.

Cowardice is one of the least appealing of human qualities, and a deeply damaged Cowardly Lion leads the Republican Party.

How do you abandon deeply held beliefs about character, personal responsibility, foreign policy, and the national debt in a matter of months? You don't. The obvious answer is those beliefs weren't deeply held. In the end, the Republican Party rallied behind Donald Trump because if that was the deal needed to regain power, what was the problem? Because it had always been about power. The rest? The principles? The values? It was

This is Jake.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view. Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was

I'm not cute at all. I'm a very cranky person.

That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker. What a bitch.

That's the kind of person she was, a cat-kicker.

I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.

influenced, and I'd be corrupting his

A man is what he himself does, what he thinks, what he learns, his own skills.

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

A leader leads by example not by force.

Confucius said, "People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration.

Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.