Quotes about Character
Young man, make your name worth something.
— Andrew Carnegie
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
— Charles Spurgeon
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
— Booker T. Washington
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
— St. Augustine
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
— Charles Finney
How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.
— John Knox
I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
— DL Moody
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
— William Golding
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
— Jerry Falwell
A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.
— Confucius
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
— Cicero
God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.
— John Hagee