Quotes About Character

How much of assumed national and personal character comes from the fact that we have never truly known need to the point of having our character tested? Willing conscientious objectors underwent controlled starvation and confirmed how quickly it impacts the initiative and generosity we like to think of as American characteristics.

As Thomas Jefferson wrote the following year, "the moderation and virtue of a single character has probably prevented this revolution from being closed as most others have been by a subversion of that liberty it was intended to establish.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

It was his mistake in thinking that a snake would choose to be anything but a snake.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

People can be monsters. Whether it's just their actions, or whether it's who they really are, it doesn't matter. The result is the same.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of the darkness and light all our lives.

People like you because you've got integrity. Even when you're being an ass.

She sighed, knowing she couldn't push it any further. Thank you for being so... merciful, Allie said. But I would appreciate it if Pea-brain here would keep his hands off me. That's Pinhead, corrected the boy. Pea-brain works in the engine room.

People are vessels, Jeri had said to her. The hold whatever's poured into them.

If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from a hundred successful voyages, it would have suited him, because character should always come before beauty.

B)ut when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

We are all tested in this life. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

I'm decent to everyone, Rowan pointed out. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a decent person.

It means I chose wisely," Scythe Faraday told her. "If you do not cry yourself to sleep on a regular basis, you are not compassionate enough to be a scythe.

Either someone with no conscience at all, or someone with a conscience so deep and sturdy that its center could still hold in the face of light extinguished.

But my pain must not prevent me from doing the right thing.

Ha buscado por doquier la belleza pasajera, fugaz, de la vida presente, el carácter de aquello que el lector nos permitió llamar la modernidad.

La idea que el hombre se hace de lo bello se imprime en toda su estampa, arruga o tensa su traje, redondea o endereza su gesto y, a la larga, incluso penetra sutilmente en los rasgos de su cara. El hombre acaba por parecerse a lo que quisiera ser. Estos grabados pueden tomarse como imágenes bellas o feas; feas, se convierten en caricaturas; bellas, en estatuas antiguas.

On n'est jamais excusable d'être méchant, mais il y a quelque mérite à savoir qu'on l'est; et le plus irréparable des vices est de faire le mal par bêtise.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.