Quotes About Character

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

The Holy Ghost causes out feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate. We are calmer. We have a greater capacity to love. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in character. As a result, we are more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things.

there must be a renewal of the spirit of our forefathers, an appreciation of the American way of life, a strengthening of muscle and sinew and the character of the nation. America needs guts as well as guns. National character is the core of national defense.

To measure the worthiness of an issue or political leader: First, is the proposal, the policy or the idea being promoted, right as measured by the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Second, is it right as measured by the Lord's standard of constitutional government?...The Lord's standard is a safe guide. Third,...is it right as measured by the counsel of the living oracles of God? Fourth, what will be the effect upon the moral and the character of the people if this or that policy is adopted?

Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful.

What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible character to the landscape. They evoke wonder, awe, a multitude of questions as to their purpose, their grandeur and the mystery of creation.

It is what one really owns in the end, a name." -Istak

Never judge people based on their company. Take Judas, for example; he had irreprochable friends!

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

You deserve someone who will honor you first and last. And if you choose a man who dishonors you, then you are not the woman I believe you to be.

The last story, "Off the Grid," is one I'm incredibly excited about. It's from Jane's point of view, and it introduces a character named Nell Nicholson.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

There is no longer any class outside the class of character, and no history to put your faith in. You can actually live as if you have no culture, no perspective particular to a date in time. You are an individual whose prime and solitary property is your own body. Dying becomes a hell beyond all reason or justice in this ahistorical context.

A small smile tipped up one corner of her mouth as she remembered that first night, and how ridiculously out of his element Naveen had been. She glanced over at him now, taking in his strong and handsome profile. He'd changed so much in the year since she'd first met him. He was no longer the spoiled little rich boy who thought he could get by on his looks and charm. Though he'd surely won her over with that charm in the end.

She was struck once again by how different he was from that self-absorbed cad he'd been when she had met him a year earlier. Despite her best efforts not to, she'd fallen in love with him then. It would be so very easy to love this kinder, more considerate Naveen.

Idle, profligate, ingrate. No one decent could ever want him.

Doubt afflicts the good, not the bad.

I would have felt that I nailed his coffin. He was a wonderful person, Peter. A sweet man with a brilliant mind. In some ways he was much more attentive to me than Yitzchak. He would never do anything criminal, Peter. Just as you wouldn't. It's not in his makeup.

You've got a good side?" "I do. I just don't use it too often. My bad side's so much more fun.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.