Quotes about Character
As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.
- St Bonaventure
Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.
- Francis de Sales
Christians are not born but made.
- Saint Jerome
Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.
- Teresa of Avila
and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
True love is something seen and known by others.
- Sam Storms
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- Samuel Johnson
Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.
- Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Samuel Johnson
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
- Samuel Johnson