Quotes about Character
Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.
- John Maxwell
Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.
- Gordon Hinckley
if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius
- William Saroyan
The person of a man may leave—or be taken away—but the best part of a good man stays. It stays forever. Love is immortal and makes all things immortal. But hate dies every minute.
- William Saroyan
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
It is surely very ironic and tragic if those who speak most loudly about the gifts of the Spirit are themselves failing to show much of the fruit of the Spirit.
- Christopher Wright
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
- Cicero
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.
- Cicero
"Pretty is as pretty does" was a stupid cliché in her estimation. Pretty is what God does in the hearts and minds of people who are a mess-whether outwardly or inwardly or both.
- Cindy Woodsmall
I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.
- Clay Aiken
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
- Herbert Hoover
Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.
- Herbert Hoover