Quotes about Character
It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
- Adrian Rogers
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
- Thomas Paine
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- GK Chesterton
He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.
- Charles Spurgeon
The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.
- Ellen White
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
- John Milton
Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.
- Joyce Meyer
Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.
- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson