Quotes about Character

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

More depends on my walk than talk.

Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

You do not find one godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it; though for a while he was shaken, yet at last he was better for an affliction. But a great many godly men, you find, have been worse for their prosperity.

This was the excellency of the Grace of God in the Apostle, that he was fit for any condition.