Quotes About Character

there are certain traits that God puts in each of us. There's no escaping them.

We may have heaven and hell in us, but we choose who we are. And who we fight.

None of us are who we are on our very worst days," he adds. "I know you know that.

reputation for integrity and honor is something you can take anywhere, and it will never let you down.

There was something disagreeable, even English, about him, Colette thought

There have always been two senses of the word gentleman: the fine man of high birth and the fine man of good character.

Hollywood, especially, has tended to portray the warrior as a dysfunctional individual.

Our cross, we realize, helps define who we are. How we wrestled with our problems, how we battled the demons that often accompanied them, was what built character.

What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.

whereas malice was the beginning and end of Laurence Strange's character, the new manservant was a more natural blend of light and shade. He possessed a great deal of good sense and was as energetic in defending others from real injury as he was in revenging imaginary insults to himself.

Like Mrs Pleasance I always fancy that misers are old. I cannot tell why this should be since I am sure that there are as many young misers as old. As to whether or not Mr Norrell was in fact old, he was the sort of man who had been old at seventeen.

Shape-changing and so on were all very well in the past. It makes a vivid incident in a story, I grant you. But surely, Strange, you would not want to practise it? A gentleman cannot change his shape. A gentleman scorns to seem any thing other than what he is. You yourself would never wish to appear in the character of a pastry-cook or a lamplighter …

But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.

she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.

There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine. Why not come and be contrary with me?

According to the second system I have given the years names like 'The Year I named the Constellations' and 'The Year I counted and named the Dead'. I like this much more. It gives each year a character of its own. This is the system I shall use going forward.

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

I wanted to get rid of a certain aspect of my character. I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin. It worked for a while. Then it stopped; but I had no heart to try again.

I had a character disorder. When I got my diagnosis it didn't sound serious, but after a while it sounded more ominous than other people's. I imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless.

En la vida hace falta tener generosidad: cultivar el pequeño carácter propio sin ver nada más de lo que hay alrededor significa seguir respirando pero estar ya muerto.

Anl?yor musun? Böyledir bu dünya, yaÅŸam cömertlik ister: Ä°nsan?n kendi içindeki karekteri yetiÅŸtirmesi, ama bunu yaparken de çevredeki hiçbir ÅŸeyi alg?lamamas?, hâlâ soluk alsa da ölü olmaya benzer.

Odrekla sem se osebnosti, da bi si pridobila zna?aj. Zna?aj se, kot boš sama ugotovila, v življenju mnogo bolj ceni kot osebnost.

Call me Maximilian.' A sheep farmer. He's a sheep farmer, she reminded herself fiercely. One who lived in Yorkshire, of all places. 'Very well, Maximilian,' she said.

The man's a twit." "I love when you get all British." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'm always all British