Quotes about Character

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.

Let the youth remember that here they are to build characters for eternity, and that God requires them to do their best. Let those older in experience watch over the younger ones; and when they see them tempted, take them aside, and pray with them and for them.

The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.

Striving to develop perfect Christian characters, seeking by diligent study and earnest prayer to gain the training essential for acceptable service in the cause of God.

The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.

Principle, right, honesty, should ever be cherished.

The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.

Our standing before God depends, not upon the amount of light we have received, but upon the use we make of what we have. Thus even the heathen who choose the right as far as they can distinguish it are in a more favorable condition than are those who have had great light, and profess to serve God, but who disregard the light, and by their daily life contradict their profession.

That we might become acquainted with His divine character and life, Christ took our nature and dwelt among us. Divinity was revealed in humanity; the invisible glory in the visible human form. Men could learn of the unknown through the known; heavenly things were revealed through the earthly; God was made manifest in the likeness of men.

While parents are responsible for the stamp of character, as well as for the education and training, of their sons and daughters, it is still true that our position and usefulness in the world depend, to a great degree, upon our own course of action.

It is through our failure to endure the tests that come to us in little things that the habits are molded, the character misshaped; and when the greater tests.

The character is revealed, not by occasional good deeds and occasional misdeeds, but by the tendency of the habitual words and acts.