Quotes About Character

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Il faut qu'on n'en puisse (dire), ni il est mathématicien, ni prédicateur, ni éloquent mais il est honnête homme. Cette qualité universelle me plaît seule.

Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don't speak.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character).

Personal honor is imposed from within. The honor code is imposed from without.

Too many people are locked into a limited worldview because their own character keeps them from seeing the true nature of the world around them.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trump is the wrong man for the job.

He's a professional liar.

Cohn realized again what he had said before to others about the president: "He's a professional liar.

In Bannon's evaluation, Trump was Archie Bunker, but a really focused Archie Bunker.

I bring rage out. I do bring rage out. I always have. I don't know if that's an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do." Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa on March 31, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion, Trump International Hotel, Washington, D.C.

The president has no moral compass," Mattis replied. The bluntness should have shocked Coats, but he'd arrived at his own hard truths about the most powerful man in the world. "True," Coats agreed. "To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie.

For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us." After

Not until we're totally crushed do we show what we are made of.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

Character, not circumstance, makes the person.

Booker T. Washington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...