Quotes about Character
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
— John Piper
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
— Winston Churchill
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
— CS Lewis
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
— Aristotle
Your wisdom should be without pride.
— St. Augustine
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
— CS Lewis
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
— Vince Lombardi
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
— Dallas Willard
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
— Thomas a Kempis
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
— Cicero
But you see, it is the wilderness that weeds out the saints from the "aint's.
— Bishop TD Jakes