Quotes About Character

And the more details I added in order to round out the figure of the "actor," the more of a "character" he became.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Nobody is immune to a nationwide evil unless he is unshakably convinced of the danger of his own character being tainted by the same evil.

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

The world determines wealth and success by what you have. God determines wealth and success by what you give. Success is not about what you get but what you become. You

I guess no one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.

If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general.

It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent unit but as something unique and singular which in the last analysis can be neither known nor compared with anything else.

absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity.

for he was obviously and unself-consciously the person he had always been.

Unless he stands on his own feet the so-called objective values profit him nothing since they only serve as a substitute for character

Es sorprendente la transformación que se opera en el carácter de un individuo al irrumpir en él las fuerzas colectivas. Un ser humano afable y sensato puede tornarse un maníaco o una bestia salvaje.

He is incapable of living his own life and finding the character that belongs to him.

I've come to realize something that for three weeks in my life I'd begun to doubt: There are good people in the world. Good people, kind people. xxx They all could have chosen to be cold, cruel, indifferent. That would have been easy. Brutality, I think, comes naturally to human beings. But they chose to be good, even if what they did could be questioned within the strict confines of the law.

Eddie Haskell

Barnum turned, smirking,