Quotes about Character

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.

I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.

In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character; that is the goal of a true education.

I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!

What matters is not how long you live…but how you live.

In the final analysis, God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives. In the final analysis, God knows that his children are weak and they are frail. In the final analysis, what God requires is that your heart is right.

It is pretty difficult to imagine a single person having, simultaneously, the characteristics of the serpent and the dove, but this is what Jesus expects. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.