Quotes about Character

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

His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He hide those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Money is the barometer of society's virtue.

Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices