Quotes about Character
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.
- Stanley Hauerwas
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
- St. Augustine
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
- St. Augustine
Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.
- Lisa Wingate
A good heart can't ever let the bad get in, Mama's voice whispers in my head. You got a good heart, Hannie. Don't let the bad get in you. Don't open the door to it, no matter how much it comes knockin' or how sweet it sounds askin'.
- Lisa Wingate
A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.
- Lisa Wingate
We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside," she say.
- Lisa Wingate
A man who doesn't stand for what is right dies his own death well before it happens.
- Lisa Wingate
Tough times make good people and bad people.
- Lisa Wingate
What should matter is whether or not you can live with who you are.
- Lisa Wingate
The best thing is to know. I always tell 'em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain't no other good way of livin'.
- Lisa Wingate
Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper.
- Livy