Character Quotes

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."

"Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

"High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments."

"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

"Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free."

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."

"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."

"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."

"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."

"I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be."

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."