Quotes about Human
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
— E Stanley Jones
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.
— Pope Benedict XVI
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin.
— Joel Beeke
Life is pretty much a selling job. Whether we succeed or fail is largely a matter of how well we motivate the human beings with whom we deal to buy us and what we have to offer. Success
— John Maxwell
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
— Seneca
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.
— CS Lewis
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
— Hildegard of Bingen
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
— St. Jerome
What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
— Paulo Coelho
A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.
— Wendell Berry
Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings.
— Dinesh D'Souza