Quotes about Character

For as he thinks within himself, so he is (Proverbs 23:7). T

Is who you are determined by what you do, or is what you do determined by who you are?

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.

The honor of a nation is its life.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

It is not hatred that is wrong; it is hating the wrong thing that is wrong. It is not anger that is wrong; it is being angry at the wrong thing that is wrong. Tell me your enemy, and I will tell you what you are. Tell me your hatred, and I will tell you your character.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.

any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.