Quotes about Character
The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right.
— Madeleine L'Engle
For the opposite of sin is faith and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others and sometimes downright cruel!
— Madeleine L'Engle
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
— Stephen Covey
Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
— Elbert Hubbard
Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
— Frederick Douglass
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
— John Wooden
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
— Herbert Hoover
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
— Martin Luther
Father, may the Holy Spirit have full dominion over me: in my home, in my character, in every word of my tongue, in every thought of my heart, in every feeling towards my fellowmen; may the Holy Spirit have entire possession.
— Andrew Murray