Quotes about Character

Our actions determine our dispositions.

As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for the reason that there aint any way to make them pay it, like a honest man that gambles. The bad men can deny it; that's why dont anybody expect them to pay on sight or any other time. But the good cant. Maybe it takes longer to pay for being good than for being bad.

people seemed to hold that the one sole end of the entire establishment of public office was to elect one man like Sheriff Hampton big enough or at least with sense and character enough to run the county and then fill the rest of the jobs with cousins and inlaws who had failed to make a living at everything else they ever tried.