Quotes about Character

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.

I will not through humility become the devil's attorney

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

At times emerging leaders limit their future possibilities by their impatience. They look for shortcuts to success, but God is methodical. He typically lays a foundation of character before building a superstructure of leadership.

Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.

Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.