Quotes about Character
Temptations are a compliment to our power, not our weakness.
— Fred Craddock
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
— Frederic William Farrar
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
— Brennan Manning
On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.
— Brennan Manning
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
— Brennan Manning
As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected.
— Henry David Thoreau
I will not through humility become the devil's attorney
— Henry David Thoreau
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
— Henry David Thoreau
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
— Henry David Thoreau
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
— Henry David Thoreau
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
— Henry David Thoreau