Quotes about Character
But of all the bonds of fellowship, there is none more noble, none more powerful than when good men of congenial character are joined in intimate friendship.
- Cicero
Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.
- Margaret Atwood
Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows them to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.
- Margaret Atwood
Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.
- Zig Ziglar
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
- Cicero
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
- John Henry Jowett
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
- Ronald Reagan
Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
- Martin Luther
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
- St. Augustine
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
- Oswald Chambers
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
- George W. Bush