Quotes about Character
Have I placed more value on my status or title than on my character? What perceptions do I have about myself, other people, and the world? Are they aligned with my purpose? Do they reflect the values I claim to have? What is my true nature, apart from my reputation? What values will I refuse to deny because, to do so, I would violate my ideals and ethics?
- Myles Munroe
No one should think he is too smart or too safe to avoid consequences of a lack of character.
- Myles Munroe
Don't expect your success to carry you in life. Rather, let your success be carried by your character.
- Myles Munroe
People become leaders when they make the decision not to sacrifice their principles on the altar of convenience or compromise.
- Myles Munroe
At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.
- NT Wright
Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.
- NT Wright
Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.
- NT Wright
Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.
- NT Wright
The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.
- NT Wright
Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.
- NT Wright
Virtue, in this strict sense, is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices, requiring effort and concentration, to do something which is good and right but which doesn't "come naturally"—and then, on the thousand and first time, when it really matters, they find that they do what's required "automatically," as we say.
- NT Wright
You become like what you worship.
- NT Wright