Quotes about Character

In the final analysis, God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives. In the final analysis, God knows that his children are weak and they are frail. In the final analysis, what God requires is that your heart is right.

It is pretty difficult to imagine a single person having, simultaneously, the characteristics of the serpent and the dove, but this is what Jesus expects. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

His eyes kindled and a slight flush sprang into his thin cheeks. For an instant the veil had lifted upon his keen, intense nature, but for an instant only. When I glanced again his face had resumed that red-Indian composure which had made so many regard him as a machine rather than a man.

I may be on the side of the Angels ,but don't think for one second that I am one of them.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He hide those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...