Quotes about Character

You can talk about right and wrong and good and bad all day long, but ultimately people need to see it. Seeing and studying the actual lives of people is simply the best way to communicate ideas about how to behave and how not to behave. We need heroes and role models.

Perhaps even more important in the Bonhoeffer family was acting upon what one said one believed. One must not only think clearly but must prove one's thoughts in action. If one was unprepared to live out what one claimed to believe, perhaps one didn't believe what one claimed after all!

But most extraordinary—and evidence to Mrs. Wilberforce of a "Great Change" indeed, though one she certainly welcomed—was a marked absence of that irritability and harsh temper he had sometimes displayed, especially toward her.

We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

Our productivity in the kingdom of God is directly related to our character and our Christ-likeness.

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Being humble matters.

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.