Quotes About Character

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

The problem with Conlan was that he had his father's unshakeable confidence and his mother's mouth.

Neither did I, but unlike Leon, I would be highly unlikely to shoot each of them through the left eye "for symmetry reasons.

The world needs more good people in it, and my son will be a good person.

His voice matched him, deep and slightly raspy. If dragons existed and could talk, they would sound just like him.

It's not that I'm that evil, really. I'm just beloved by evil things.

Tony asked him what his outfit was called, and Gaston told him that if he had to be menacing, there was no reason he couldn't be dashing as well.

He never stopped being the Beast Lord. He was the man who could dominate thousands of shapeshifters with a single look, and he was also the man who stayed up all night with a child who'd eaten some poisonous herbs in the forest and spent twenty-four hours throwing them up. One couldn't be separated from another. They were all aspects of Curran, and I loved all of him.

Rogan gave him a flat stare. Lesser men would've fled for their life, but Augustine was clearly made of sterner stuff.

Did they think I would throw a tantrum?" "Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type." I looked at him. "Hard-stare type." He grinned.

Curran decided to go as what he referred to as a "redshirt." Apparently it was the term for some sort of disposable attendant from some old TV show.

The point of having a castle isn't hiding inside its walls; it's being worthy of it.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved .

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity.

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

What does it avail, one will say, that this man has so much talent, that he is so active therewith, and that he exerts thereby a useful influence over the community, thus having a great worth both in relation to his own happy condition and to the benefit of others, if he does not possess a good will?

By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

O ser humano é aquilo que a educação faz dele.