Quotes about Character
Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.
- Thomas a Kempis
Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.
- Thomas a Kempis
The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;
- Thomas a Kempis
What doth it profit thee to enter into deep discussion concerning the Holy Trinity, if thou lack humility, and be thus displeasing to the Trinity? For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright;
- Thomas a Kempis
Who is forced to struggle more than he who tries to master himself? This ought to be our purpose, then: to conquer self, to become stronger each day, to advance in virtue.
- Thomas a Kempis
To think of oneself as nothing, and always to think well and highly of others is the best and most perfect wisdom.
- Thomas a Kempis
He who shaneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.
- Thomas a Kempis
Moreover, virtue is not concerned with the amount of pleasure experienced by the external sense, as this depends on the disposition of the body; what matters is how much the interior appetite is affected by that pleasure.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): "Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics.
- Mark McKinnon