Quotes about Character
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
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
— Samuel Johnson
My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.
— Samuel Johnson