Quotes about Character
Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
— Rick Warren
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.
— Francis de Sales
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
— Dallas Willard
More depends on my walk than talk.
— DL Moody
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
— AB Simpson
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
— George Eliot
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
— JM Coetzee
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
— Joseph Addison
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
— Steve Jobs
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
— Ellen White