Quotes about Character
The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches 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
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
- Phillips Brooks
No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.
- Robin Sharma
Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
- St. Augustine
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.
- Thomas a Kempis
We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.
- Thomas Merton
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
- Harold S. Kushner
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
- William Barclay
The high cost of low living.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Different presidents have different strengths, they bring different life experiences.
- Hillary Clinton
God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
- Rick Warren