Quotes About Character

Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are.

Is it how we feel or how we think that is more important in determining whether we are morally good human beings?

If we live with a good heart, good speech, and good action life will be good.

Of all the men I have ever known, Eric Liddell was the one in whose character and life the Spirit of Jesus Christ was pre-eminently manifested." And all of us who were privileged to know him with any intimacy echo this judgement. 'What was the secret of his consecrated life and far-reaching influence? Absolute surrender to God's will as revealed in Jesus Christ.

We certainly did. We just wanted to survive. That's all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn't matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you could ever ask for. So, don't let the size of that ring sway you. Think about what kind of a man he is. Is he decent and honorable? Would he die for you or help another person before he helped himself?

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

She thought that heartbreak might just give his character the shadows and corners and angles it needed to make it truly interesting. To deepen and shape it. She was sorry she would be the one to help make him truly interesting. But she'd never apologize for falling in love with a man who already was.

Mister..." "Wrexion." Chase supplied with great dignity. "Mr.Hugh G. Wrexion.

Trying to cling to what you had when you were young would be so tragic, horrible, and after a certain age ambition is horribly disfiguring to the character.

Surely, Haagar was the stronger when it came to will, but Myown drew her life directly from her soul.

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

Fitger behaves like more of an ass than he actually is.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

Oh, las máscaras. Uno tiende siempre a pensar en el rostro que esconden, pero en realidad lo que cuenta es la máscara, que sea ésa y no otra. Dime qué máscara usas y te diré qué cara tienes.

For my part, I wonder whether someday I will ever succeed in making it felt that the true character and the only one that interests me is the reader, to the degree in which something of what I write ought to contribute to his mutation, displacement, alienation, transportation." In spite of the tacit confession of defeat in the last sentence, Ronald found a presumption in the note that displeased him. (–18)

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our characters, determines who we are, and what we do.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.