Inspirational Quotes on Character

“Speak but little and well if you would be esteemed a man of merit.”

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

“Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.”

“You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”

“The heart is the mainspring.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God so dwelling in us as to impart his character to us, and to have him so dwelling in us that we recognize his presence, and know that we are his, and he is ours. The one is salvation: the other the assurance of it.”

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

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

“If an ass goes traveling he will not come home a horse.”

“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.”

“Never decide on anything or start to do anything while emotion is agitating like a roaring sea. Again, during that time even our conscience is rendered unreliable.”

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

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

“All the energies generated in the soul including talent, gift, knowledge and wisdom, cannot enable believers to bear spiritual fruit.”

“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.”

“Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.”

“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.”