Inspirational Quotes on Character

“Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.”

“If you do what you always did, you'll get what you always got.”

“Let principles make decisions.”

“What you are is what it takes to stop you.”

“Character comes by repetition of right until right is done subconsciously.”

“Cheerfulness is the friend and helper of all good graces, and the absence of it is certainly a vice.”

“Cheerfulness sharpens the edge and removes the rust from the mind. A joyous heart supplies oil to our inward machinery, and makes the whole of our powers work with ease and efficiency; hence it is of the utmost importance that we maintain a contented, cheerful, genial disposition.”

“There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.”

“Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.”

“No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.”

“A fair reputation is a plant delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night, like the gourd of the prophet, but like that gourd, it may perish in a night.”

“In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity, but examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.”

“Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. For so have I heard, that all the noises and prating of the pool, the croaking of frogs and toads, are hushed and appeased upon the bringing upon them the light of a candle or torch. Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissolution of the tongue.”

“Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.”

“Because I had been a basketball player, it never dawned on me to evaluate people on the basis of color. If you could play, you could play. In America it would appear that there is more openness, acceptance, and teamwork in the gym than in the church of Jesus Christ.”

“We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.”

“I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.”

“All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.”

“No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.”

“One brave deed makes no hero.”