Quotes about Character

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.

It is easier for the leaders to reject the prophecy and the prophet, particularly if there are some unresolved character issues in the life of the prophet. It provides a legitimate reason to reject the word in the eyes of the people, though not necessarily in the eyes of the Lord. Prophecy has a way of testing our true motives.

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.