Quotes About Character

I would rather be a poor man with honest friends than a rich man with none.

I also wonder about gold fever, why it make some men crazy and others wise. Such as Sam, my father, and Captain clinkingbeard They suffered heartbreak and loss just as Jesse Blue had, but they didn't become thieves or liars. Why? I asked papa. What makes the difference? His eyes were gentle when he looked at me. "It seems that true character of often isn't revealed until a person is faced with temptation".

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

She has a steel exterior, but it protects a candyfloss heart.

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues!

Where are the gold pieces now?' the Fairy asked. 'I lost them,' answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket. As he spoke, his nose, long though it was, became at least two inches longer.

se c'è un modo di essere materno, dove non traspare nessun sentimentalismo, questo era il suo:

non è il vestito bello che fa il signore, ma è piuttosto il vestito pulito.

People were not peaches. Like guns and saddles, they were all the better for becoming slightly worn.

Maybe I'm drunk right now, even though I don't remember drinking anything. When I'm drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability to reason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am a crazy now; I'm going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little me

Leadership is something I was born with.

You will lose because people can sniff out a poser from a mile away.

is willing to hire people based 10 percent on their knowledge and 90 percent on their personality,

But I found steel beneath his soft-spoken manner. I could not break him. Despite his struggles with the tasks I set him, he lived with everything of gentleness and grace.

Humility is a difficult lesson.