Quotes About Character

She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out.

I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.

Courage comes from your heart, not your fist.

Courage comes from your heart, not your fists.

A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.

Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he kan;Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.

That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis.

Fy on possessiounBut if a man be vertuous withal.

In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave — with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble.

Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

A man has virtues enough if, on account of them, he deserves forgiveness for his faults.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Education is the art of making man ethical

Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

You cannot drive people to do things which are right, but you can love them into doing them, if your example is of such a character that they can see you mean what you say.

By common consent grey hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

A distinguishing taste of authentic Christians is their distaste for evil.

Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well