Quotes about Character
His Christianity was muscular.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
- Joseph Addison
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
- Evelyn Underhill
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
- Abraham Lincoln
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
- William Hazlitt
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius
The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.
- Anonymous
It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
- Barbara Kingsolver
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
- Charles Swindoll
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Noble fathers have noble children.
- Euripides
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge