Quotes about Character
Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.
- Joyce Meyer
We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
- Confucius
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
- Confucius
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
- William Wilberforce
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
- Gordon Hinckley
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
- Laurence Sterne
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.
- Mary Baker Eddy
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.
- David O. McKay
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
- Charles Spurgeon