Quotes about Character

Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves.

People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don't measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn't real.

If we would take the traits that characterized the Pilgrims and make them our own, we could regain hope. We could recover the spiritual and moral strength that we have lost. We could offer a thrilling challenge to our young people.

Millions of professing Christians are only just that—"professing." They have never possessed Christ. They live lives characterized by the flesh.

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters.

If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Our society has traded strength of character for makeovers that deceive.

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people. The power of personality is strong... often personality is greater than the idea.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].