Quotes About Character

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty, she always quoted to her daughter Fanny. Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.

He was one of those people who in all of their feelings and actions seem to be walking along a steep, downhill slope. They lack the strength to stop for a minute, and with each step, they get more and more carried away. Like all of them, Dmitry took this insufficiency of strength for fervency of character and insuperable storminess of passion.

Everything you do in life, whether it's good or bad, makes you who you are. Don't maybe your decisions to death because you can't change them.

Leadership requires you to live above board

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.

Secondhand pieces have the most soul.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering," she told Gus. "It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.

It's easy to look back and think how we could make only the good things happen to us,' counseled Catherine, still swishing her mop to and fro, spreading dirty water instead of soaking it up. 'But that's not how we become ourselves. You are mad who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

But we're all characters in our own stories, Iggy.

You are so bullheaded!" cried Aethra. "You must have gotten it from your father." "I don't think so," muttered Po.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Modesty alone doesn't prove a man a hero. But it's incontrovertible that immodesty makes him a bore.

Do we know anything about Drummond – apart from what the cheese-woman said about his fondness for horse-racing?

In every other age and class man is held responsible for his reading, and not reading responsible for man. The books a man or woman reads are less the making of character than the expression of it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.

All well-brought-up people are afraid of having any experience which seems to them uncharacteristic of themselves as they imagine themselves to be.

To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.