Quotes about Character
One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
- Jimmy Carter
If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
- Henry Cloud
God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
- Gordon Fee
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
- William Wordsworth
Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.
- Mary Connealy
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
- Ayn Rand
And then there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.
- Barack Obama
"There are things more important," he told me, "than getting reelected."
- Barack Obama
There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
- Barbara Kingsolver
He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.
- Barbara Kingsolver