Quotes about Character
People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: 'i am not too concerned with what i'm going to do. I am more interested in who i am becoming. I want to be a lover of God and people.
— Shane Claiborne
It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.
— Shane Claiborne
One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
— Jimmy Carter
If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
— Henry Cloud
God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
— Gordon Fee
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
— William Wordsworth
Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.
— Mary Connealy
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
— Ayn Rand
And then there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.
— Barack Obama
"There are things more important," he told me, "than getting reelected."
— Barack Obama
There can be no greater spiritual accomplishment than to come through brutal trials and then look back and see that mean times did not render us mean spirits.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
— Barbara Kingsolver