Quotes about Character

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good.

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.

Unless a man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us…it is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.

Tremble in His midst so as to never falter in the midst of the grave responsibilities of life. Humility properly placed is the only sure foundation of leadership.

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

He who shunneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.