Quotes About Character

Finn O'Finnegan looked like a rogue and walked like a rascal, so it was widely thought that he was at least one or the other. And his shadow, which followed him closely and knew all of his secrets, might have said he was both.

Finn O'Finnegan looked like a rogue and walked like a rascal, so it was widely thought that he was at least one or the other.

For it is a curious characteristic of our unformed species that we live and model our lives through acts of make-believe. A youngster identified with a mustang goes galloping down the street with a new vitality and personality. A daughter imitates her mother; a son, his father. —Joseph Campbell, MYTHS TO LIVE BY

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

There are no moral shortcuts in the game of business—or life. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. —MAHATMA GANDHI

we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.

A leader doesn't need any credit…. He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway. —ROBERT TOWNSEND, FORMER CEO, AVIS

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

Ultimately, though, you only know who a man is and what he believes by what he does. Not by what he sits around talking about.

What are you reading, watching, memorizing, and applying that will make you an exceptional man?

Action is character. Manhood is action.

Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

But somehow, even when we are grown up and "adjusted," everything we do and are—our handwriting, the vibrato of our voice, the way we handle the bow or breathe into the instrument, our way of using language, the look in our eyes, the pattern of whorling fingerprints on our hand—all these things are symptomatic of our original nature.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

And his valour was such that it was exceeded only by his virtue, which was exceeded only by his wisdom, which was itself exceeded only by his honesty.

You seem a thoughtful sort of man, Will," the cheerful cleric observed. "I hope I am," I replied.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

Beliefs are not related to religion but they are basically about who you are.

Gone are the days when 19-inch biceps would once command respect. A Jedi doesn't walk around with their arms flexed and with a thousand yard stare in their eyes. They walk with a good posture, their head held high and with a serious, yet friendly, look on their face.

While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.

How you speak is how you are.