Quotes About Character

a proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.

character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Everybody hurts sometimes, and

All that beauty . . . and Daggrepont, ugliness personified, a fat, grotesque pouch of greed, avarice shining in his magnified eyes . . .

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs, Neal told Kel at lunch.

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

Dale: No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met! Goodwin: No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say. — Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's luck

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed, she informed him softly. Little *bitch*, he snapped. Sandry looked him over soberly. If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness, she replied.

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away? Alex wanted to know. You didn't see anything strange? Alanna didn't look up. No. It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.

Only the man who wishes to be corrupted will fall into evil ways.

We are what we're made to be.

His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.

There's different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who's speaking. There's all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.

People reveal their true character when they're off center.

What matters, is to connect your own voice with an infinite range of verbal cadences & sequences – and only endless actual experience of your ear can store all that in your nervous system. The rest can be left to your life & your character.

As Jean-Paul Sartre said, we are the sum total of our actions. What is in our hearts does not matter.

when you sow a thought, you reap an action. When you repeat an action, you develop a habit. When you maintain a habit, you create a character.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

You're a lot like Anthony, did you know that?

Mother, you are hopeless" "Certainly not. Shameless, perhaps, but never hopeless.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.