Quotes about Character
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
In short, contrary to the founders—and in ways they do not realize themselves—Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster.
- Os Guinness
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
- Os Guinness
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
- Oswald Chambers
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
- Oswald Chambers
We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.
- Oswald Chambers
Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.
- Oswald Chambers
Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
- Oswald Chambers
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
- Oswald Chambers
It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence. The
- Oswald Chambers