Quotes about Character
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
— Charles Dickens
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
— David O. McKay
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
— John Piper
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
— Winston Churchill
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
— CS Lewis
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
— Aristotle
Your wisdom should be without pride.
— St. Augustine
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
— CS Lewis
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
— Vince Lombardi