Character
968 quotes: 34 by Keith Craft, 934 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Character
- Children rarely become what fathers say. They become what fathers consistently demonstrate.
- Faithfulness is not never failing. It’s getting back up every time you fail so that you never fail, when you fall!
- It is not what you do that determines who you are, it is who you are that determines what you do.
- Spiritual maturity can be measured one way: by what it takes to offend you.
- The greatest attribute you can have as a human being is a spirit of honor.
- The quality of your marriage will never exceed the quality of the person you choose to become.
- We don’t honor because they are honorable, we honor because we are honorable.
- What happens IN you will eventually determine what happens THROUGH you.
- What you are full of determines what you walk through and what you come out of.
- You can tell how spiritually mature someone is by what it takes to offend them.
- You cannot create the marriage you want while refusing to become the spouse it requires.
- The true test of faithfulness is not never failing, but being willing to get back up and be better.
- We don’t give honor because someone deserves it. We give honor because we are honorable.
- It is impossible to fight for what is righteousness and justice if in your life, marriage, or world, you are not living righteously and justly. The way you live is what gives you authority, not what you say you believe.
- Don’t be so focused on your rights, that it keeps you from doing the right thing.
- Faithfulness breeds trust. Trust breeds respect. Respect breeds intimacy. Intimacy breeds security. Security breeds love. Love breeds good relationships. Good Relationships breed Quality of Life.
- Integrity empowers us to be our best no matter what worsts come our way.
- Authenticity is the 'real key' to any long-term achievement.
- You can be efficient in doing things right without a good reputation, but you cannot be effective in doing the right things without great character.
- Insignificance BARKS LOUD but delivers little.
- Consistency fuels the fire of Intimacy.
- Mischief is always about Me First.
- You become a principle-centered person, when your values are tested under pressure and you stay true to them.
- You are in rebellion when you do the right things for the wrong reasons.
- Stealing anything proves that you can't afford it.
- If your word is good, you are good. If your word is no good, you are not good.
- Don't ever judge another's integrity. It will show a lack of your own.
- WIN-u make right choices, you are developing faithfulness, which is the core of your personal greatness! God is looking for the faithful. (Prov. 20:6)
- Faithfulness activates God's favor in your life and ultimately produces a fruit-full life!
- What gives life to a message, is the life of the messenger...live what you speak.
- #1 Leadership Rhyme: Be careful with what you say and do, everybody is watching you!
- LeaderTip of the Day #27: Work on your inside (unseen) and your outside will follow. Make what you can't see count, because it affects what you can see.
- LeaderTip of the Day #50: Sometimes what you have most to offer others can seem to be least appreciated. Solution? Live your life in such a way that YOUR life proves the value others can benefit from.
- The enemy of your soul wants to mess up your small things, so he can keep you from your BIG things! Be faithful in small things!
Other voices on Character
- A blemish may be taken out of a diamond by careful polishing, but if your words have the least blemish there is no way to efface it.
- A boy measures worth in possessions. A man measures worth in character.
- A character is a completely-fashioned will.
- A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
- A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.