Quotes about Character
If his guilt made him a tyrant before men, it made him like a child before his God. Not a helpless or pleading child, but a petulant one, the type of tough boy who's known too little love and is quick to blame others for his mistakes.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Whole phases of her children's lives, these passions that had seemed to be their purest marrow, had faded away one after another. And character persisted.
- Barbara Kingsolver
people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
- Stephen Covey
Inside-Out means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives
- Stephen Covey
Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!
- Stephen Covey
There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.
- Stephen Covey
It is character that communicates most eloquently...In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
- Stephen Covey
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity.
- Stephen Covey
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
- Stephen Covey
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. EZRA TAFT BENSON
- Stephen Covey
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.
- Stephen Covey
The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
- Stephen Covey