Quotes about Character

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

By evil report and good report.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.