Quotes about Character
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
It is surely very ironic and tragic if those who speak most loudly about the gifts of the Spirit are themselves failing to show much of the fruit of the Spirit.
— Christopher Wright
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
— Cicero
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
— Cicero
"Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.
— Cindy Woodsmall
I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.
— Clay Aiken
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
— Herbert Hoover
Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.
— Herbert Hoover
As the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.
— Herman Bavinck
The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;
— Herman Bavinck
Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.
— Herman Bavinck
If sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old and the resurrection of the new man.
— Herman Bavinck