Quotes about Character
Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.
- John Bunyan
If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.
- Andy Andrews
All great virtues become great men.
- Pierre Corneille
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
- James Faust
Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
- John Wooden
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a great thing to know your vices.
- Cicero
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- George Bernard Shaw
A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.
- Dolly Parton
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
- Zig Ziglar
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
- Thomas Jefferson
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
- Billy Graham