Quotes About Character

Listen, I said, I don't think you understand. I don't want to be presumptuous, but really how could you understand what another person's suicide means? My friend asked the waitress for more coffee. I said that actually, now, I'd begun to measure a person's character and integrity by their ability to kill themselves.

Je?li chcesz pozna? czyj? prawdziwy charakter, daj mu w?adz? i pieni?dze. Wtedy poka?e ci swoj? w?a?ciw? twarz.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them

We are, as we die, who we most were in life...

Faith isn't about doing. You are how you act not just how you believe.

but her absence was like a character in it.

respected man once said, that the

What we carry defines who we are. And the effort we make is our legacy.

faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe

Without being conscious of it, you have allowed yourself to become fond of him not for the content of his character but for the fidelity of his echo.

To Nadia, Saeed was if anything more handsome than he had been before, his hard work and gauntness suiting him, giving him a contemplative air, making out of his boyishness a man of substance.

Moira Rose Donohue

Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don't have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You're allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn't wait for someone else.

It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one's own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets this truth, lauds oneself to the skies, treats everyone else as worthless, and generally despises others, that one's own character is clearly revealed.

I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.

O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

You are who you pretend to be.

True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.

When u are small, u can choose which way to grow. If you are kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. And if you are like El Patron . . . Just think about it." – Tam Lin

When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him.

In fact, without believable and interesting characters, you don't really have fiction at all. You may have names walking through plot, but without the essential animation of character, a historical novel becomes mostly a history text, a mystery becomes a police report, and science fiction becomes a speculative monograph. Literary fiction simply becomes unread. Character