Quotes about Character
One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.
- Charles Swindoll
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
- Andrew Jackson
If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.
- Kevin Hart
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
- Charles Colson
For a moment, imagine the person you hope to marry. What do they look like? Are they funny, intelligent, kind? How do you hope they are living their life right now? Would it bother you if you knew they were hooking up each weekend or had five, ten, or fifteen different partners over the past several years? Or would it make you smile if you knew they were holding out for you? Why not live your life as you would want them to live theirs? Wait for the relationship.
- Sean Covey
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
- Seneca
As was his language so was his life.
- Seneca
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
- Seneca
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
- Seneca
People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.
- Shane Claiborne
It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.
- Shane Claiborne
Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.
- Jesse Jackson