Quotes about Character
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
- Oswald Chambers
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
- Thomas Merton
A good character is the best tombstone.
- Charles Spurgeon
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
- CS Lewis
Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.
- Dolly Parton
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.
- CS Lewis
A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.
- A Powell Davies
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
- Publilius Syrus
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Henry Ward Beecher
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- Virginia Woolf