Quotes About Character

And that was the voice of Peeta

You can't take my charm. You can't take my humor.

That leaves Haymitch. Drunken, cranky, confrontational Haymitch, who I just poured a basin of ice water on.

And not even remotely nice. To say that to me after all I've been through." "Yeah. We've all been through a lot. And you're the one who was known for being nice. Not me.

but I like katniss better. Has a nice ring to it.

A kind Peeta Mellark is far more dangerous than an unkind one

We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. "Little thing called character," I say, thinking, Accepting marital advice from me: the height of lunacy.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

The more the evil in a man, the less he will respond to sincere and pure love.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.   ????

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

If the Student thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Student. If the Lawyer thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Lawyer, and so on.

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

There is only one sin. That is weakness.

If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.

Such a man is the same whether his work succeeds or fails.

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

I like to have a reason to change my hair. I'm not very good at saying, 'I think I'm going to do something else with my hair now.' I like a character to lead it that way.

With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.