Inspirational Quotes on Character

“He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.”

“The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.”

“Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.”

“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.”

“The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.”

“The supreme test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our character and practice.”

“The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.”

“It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. The slave may be a freeman. The monarch may be a slave. Situations are noble or ignoble, as we make them.”

“Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.”

“My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”

“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.”

“Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.”

“In dealing with a man of fine moral character, we are dealing with the highest achievement of the organic kingdom. But in dealing with a spiritual man we are dealing with THE LOWEST FORM OF LIFE IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. To contrast the two, therefore, and marvel that the one is apparently so little better than the other, is unscientific and unjust.”

“Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.”

“No man can quench his thirst with sand, or with water from the Dead Sea; so no man can find rest from his own character, however good, or from his own acts, however religious.”

“Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.”

“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.”

“Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."”

“You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.”

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