Quotes about Character
A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.
— Charles Spurgeon
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
— Confucius
The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.
— DL Moody
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
— CS Lewis
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
— CS Lewis
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
— Elbert Hubbard
It is difficulties that show what men are.
— Epictetus
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripides
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
— Samuel Johnson
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.
— Tony Evans
An honest man is respected by all parties.
— William Hazlitt