Quotes About Character

If you sweep a woman off of her feet, make sure your character is strong enough to keep her in the air.

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

People love you and value you by, how good you are? And not by, how good you look.

Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't. Whatever paper we receive, be it of material or immaterial value – it will never exceed the value of your character being loved by people!

When you're gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?

Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good.

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.

When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.

The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.

There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan.

It's not about what we go through in life, but how we come out shining on the other side that makes us who we are.

When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.

Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been

Personality can either kill or enhance your appearance.

The light of God's love makes us unique personalities

Just because you are a nice guy, doesn't mean you are a good man.

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

It is said that a person who has the eyes to see can penetrate to the core of a person's character, no matter how old that person might be.

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

În literatur?, oamenii elementari, cu pasiuni puternice, dominaÈ›i de un singur viciu sau oarecum maniaci, par vii È™i autentici. CeilalÈ›i, mai ales oamenii buni, blânzi, inteligenÈ›i È™i, în primul rând, oamenii preocupaÈ›i de probleme morale, par fazi, f?r? contur, lipsiÈ›i de personalitate. În fond, literar vorbind, sunt neinteresanÈ›i.

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My mother tells Tina that she doesn't like books where the protagonist is established as Sad on page one. Okay, she's sad! We get it, we know what sad is, and then the whole book is basically a description of the million and one ways in which our protagonist is sad. Gimme a break! Get on with it!

The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness.

I stare out of the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving. In life as in writing as in any type of creation that sets off to be a success, knowable and inspiring.