Quotes about Character
The more polished a diamond the more valuable it is; the more tested a man the more refined he is.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Your talents determine what you should do; your character, where you end up.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.
- Max Lucado
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou
A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.
- Michael Novak
After all, Ailes was perhaps the person most responsible for unleashing the angry-man currents of Trump's victory: he had invented the right-wing media that delighted in the Trump character.
- Michael Wolff
In a way, Robert Mueller had come to accept the dialectical premise of Donald Trump—that Trump is Trump. It was circular reasoning to hold the president's essential character against him. Put another way, confronted by Donald Trump, Bob Mueller threw up his hands. Surprisingly, he found himself in agreement with the greater White House: Donald Trump was the president, and, for better or for worse, what you saw was what you got—and what the country voted for.
- Michael Wolff
Men who demand the most loyalty tend to be the least loyal pricks,
- Michael Wolff
But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it. Not a single attribute would place him credibly in the revered circle of American presidential character and power.
- Michael Wolff
We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.
- Michelle Obama
True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.
- Mike Huckabee
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
- Mike Huckabee