Quotes about Character

There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.

A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook.

Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity.

It is wicked to tell a person a lie about God because, if we come to believe the wrong things about God, we will think the wrong things about ourselves, and we will live meanly or badly.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us.

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.