Quotes about Character
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
- Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You can't live wrong and pray right.
- Leonard Ravenhill
There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.
- Leonard Ravenhill
John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.
- Leonard Ravenhill
And before we can be clean and ready for Him to control, self-seeking, self-glory, self-interest, self-pity, self-righteousness, self-importance, self-promotion, self-satisfaction—and whatsoever else there be of self—must die.
- Leonard Ravenhill