Inner Character Quotes

Character is what you are in the dark.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

What we do flows from who we are.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

You can’t have people make you what you are not. You can have advisers and political consultants, but at the end of the day, you are who you are.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

Beauty is so within. I don't care if you're the most attractive person on the planet...if you're not good inside, it will show. You fall in love with people from the inside out.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him.

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.