Quotes about Character
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
- John Adams
Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Right living is a way to right thinking.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
- Abraham Lincoln
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
- Abraham Lincoln
Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer
- Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad
- Abraham Lincoln