Character Quotes - Page 5

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don’t yet have?

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.