Quotes about Character
Theology must have the character of a living procession.
- Karl Barth
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?
- John Adams
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
- John Milton
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- Joseph Addison
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.
- Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
- Joseph Addison
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
- Mark Twain
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
- Peter Kreeft
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
- Oscar Wilde
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
- Oscar Wilde
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson