Quotes about Character
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
- Stephen Covey
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
- CS Lewis
you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
- Dale Carnegie
In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.
- Johannes Tauler
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
- Confucius
When people show you who they are ... believe them!
- Oprah Winfrey
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
- Charles Dickens
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
- David O. McKay
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher