234 Quotes About Character

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

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.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.

Great character, like massive roots, grow deep when water is sparse and winds are strong.

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

Cheerfulness is the friend and helper of all good graces, and the absence of it is certainly a vice.

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

Character is what a man is in the dark.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. The slave may be a freeman. The monarch may be a slave. Situations are noble or ignoble, as we make them.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

What you are is what it takes to stop you.

No man can quench his thirst with sand, or with water from the Dead Sea; so no man can find rest from his own character, however good, or from his own acts, however religious.

Speak but little and well if you would be esteemed a man of merit.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into her better body?

What is the creed of the Agnostic, but the confession of the spiritual numbness of humanity?

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.