Quotes about Character

Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.

Through our struggles and pain, we are being offered perseverance, the character of God. Hardships are intended to give us a spiritual makeover, "that we may share in his holiness" (Heb. 12:10). Therefore, when God encourages us to persevere, he is not stumbling for encouraging words. He is teaching us how to look like him.

Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that make us what we are. By

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.