Quotes about Character

Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

President Lincoln was a master communicator, and humility was at the heart of all he said.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever, twice I did good, but that I heard never.

I'll let John Baillie answer that. He was a distinguished professor who taught theology at the University of Edinburgh. He said: "What makes a man a Christian is neither his intellectual acceptance of certain ideas, nor his conformity to a certain rule, but his possession of a certain Spirit, and his participation in a certain Life.

There is an old saying: 'Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him.' But give him a good name — and see what happens!

The fruit of the Spirit, in contrast, gives a sure sign of transformed character. When our deepest attitudes and dispositions are those of Jesus, it is because we have learned to let the Spirit foster his life in us.

He said, "The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be.

But taking love itself—God's kind of love—into the depths of our being through spiritual formation will, by contrast, enable us to act lovingly to an extent that will be surprising even to ourselves, at first.