Quotes about Character
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
— George Eliot
God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.
— J. Vernon McGee
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
— CS Lewis
Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.
— John Owen
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
— Herbert Hoover
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.
— Paul Washer
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
— AW Tozer
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
— Joseph Addison
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
— Margaret Fuller