Inspirational Quotes on Character

“People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.”

“Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.”

“Remember: What you do doesn't determine who you are; who you are determines what you do.”

“Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.”

“It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.”

“Our true character comes out in the way we pray.”

“A talkative fellow may be compared to an unbraced drum, which beats a wise man out of his wits. Loquacity is ever running, and almost incurable.”

“He hath a poor spirit who is not planted above petty wrongs.”

“He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.”

“I love the man that is modestly valiant, that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.”

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”

“Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music.”

“Men are like wine; not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.”

“Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into her better body?”

“The true boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale, our guardian angel quits his charge of us.”

“We make ourselves more injuries than are offered to us; they many times pass for wrongs in our own thoughts, that were never meant so by the heart of him that speaketh. The apprehension of wrong hurts more than the sharpest part of the wrong done.”

“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.”

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”

“To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.”

“Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.”