Quotes about Character
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
— Stephen Covey
Fathers are the first image of who God is!
— Bo Sanchez
Be who you are and be that well.
— Francis de Sales
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
— Lao Tzu
We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.
— Bob Goff
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
— Thomas Paine
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We tend to become like those whom we admire.
— Thomas Monson
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
— George Washington
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
— Ezra Taft Benson