Quotes about Character

A heavyweight boxing champion who dodges all serious contenders to consistently fight marshmallows is derided and ridiculed—and rightly so. Christians who dodge all serious struggle and consciously seek to put themselves in whatever situations and relationships are easiest are doing the same thing—they are coasting, and eventually that coasting will define them and—even worse—shape them.

Christianity does not direct us to focus on finding the right person; it calls us to become the right person.

In case you've never thought about it, a woman's body changes much more rapidly than her character does.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.

It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.