Quotes about Character
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
- John Wesley
Patience is God's nature.
- Tertullian
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
- Tertullian
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
- John Calvin
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
- Joyce Meyer
Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.
- Joyce Meyer
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
- Barack Obama
War with vices, but peace with individuals.
- St. Isidore of Seville
May not be your peace in the mouth of the men; since no matter if they thing good or bad about you, you should not be a different man because of that.
- Thomas a Kempis
A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.
- George W. Bush