Quotes About Character

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

The kingdom belongs to people who aren't trying to look good or impress anybody, even themselves. They are not plotting how they can call attention to themselves, worrying about how their actions will be interpreted or wondering if they will get gold stars for their behavior.

Preoccupation with our past sins, present weaknesses, and character defects gets our emotions churning in self-destructive ways, closes us within the mighty citadel of self, and preempts the presence of a compassionate God.

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal.

In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

They are qualities of a fictional character who is very different from me. This is a mirage called acting. Surrounded by another mirage called celeberty." The young woman speaks again. "I thought this wasn't about you?" She challenges.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

On October 29, I drove to Fort Wayne, Indiana, with Kerry Von Erich, another of Fritz Von Erich's sons. Kerry was a big, handsome, well-built kid with a kind streak a mile wide who wouldn't think twice about giving you the shirt off his back. I loved how genuine and considerate he was, especially to the fans.

He was known to be a gambler; he was suspected to be a thief.

literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.

Some men would do better to stay poor," Francesca said. " Money only exaggerates their vulgarities.

I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.

My shortcomings are no excuse for others acting in that way," Wallander said. "Not my superior in any case.

It is not so much the sight of immorality of the great that is to be feared as that of immorality leading to greatness. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Democracy in America

I think [Robert E.] Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man, had a good character, and acted conscientiously. It's always the good men who do the most harm.

To understand fully the causes which drove so many thousands into schism and heresy, leading to wars and persecutions, and the establishment of the Inquisition, it is necessary{6} to cast a glance at the character of the men who represented the Church before the people, and at the use which they made, for good or for evil, of the absolute spiritual despotism which had become established. In

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.