Character, Ethics, Virtue and Integrity Quotes
Top 10 Best Character Quotes:
"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."
- Japanese Proverb
"You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you."
- Rwandan Proverb
"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right, and that is good."
- Martin Luther King
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
- Michel de Montaigne
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there."
- Indira Gandhi
"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."
- Thomas Jefferson
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
- Confucius
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
- Mark Twain
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
- Aristotle
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
- Henry David Thoreau
More Character Quotes:
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
- James D. Miles
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
- Henry Ford
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela
"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."
- Colin Powell
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Great necessities call out great virtues."
- Abigail Adams
"If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral."
- Samuel P. Ginder
"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves."
- Rachel Carson
"I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was, 'Lord, give me the energy to change the world.' As I approached middle age and realized that half my life was gone without my changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to 'Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come in contact with me. Just my family and friends, and I shall be satisfied.' Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, my one prayer is 'Lord, give me the grace to change myself.' If I had prayed this right from the start, I would not have wasted my life."
- Bayazid
"In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul."
- Bishop Robert F. Morneau
"Plant an act; reap a habit.
Plant a habit; reap a virtue or vice.
Plant a virtue or vice; reap a character.
Plant a character; reap a destiny."
- An Old Adage
"Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back."
- Chinese Proverb
"Do not desire to be other than you are, but desire to be very well what you are."
- St. Francis de Sales
"So much has been given to me; I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied."
- Helen Keller
"There are three kinds of giving: grudge giving, duty giving, and thanks giving. Grudge giving says, 'I hate to'; duty giving says, 'I ought to'; thanks giving says, 'I want to.'"
- Robert Rodenmayer
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."
- Author Unknown
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."
- John N. Mitchell
"The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile."
- Julia Child
"We must seek and find God in the joys of human love, in the exhilaration of a sunset, starlight, a heavy snow bending the branches of evergreen in winter, in a fireplace at the end of a perfect day."
- John Powell
"Help another's boat across, and lo! Thine own has reached the shore."
- Old Hindu Proverb.
"Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing."
- Peter Drucker
"If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideas of beauty would be."
– Anonymous
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