Quotes About Character

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes, I am happy. You, dear old Charlie, are not handsome, but you are good, which is far more noble.

It's the diary that makes the man.

I have lived to be above that sort of thing.

Relying on theft and deceit is an unconscious admission of incompetence.

Honesty, not modesty, is a virtue.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

Persons unmask their evilest qualities when they do quarrel.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

His bark is worse than his bite.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,Like season'd timber, never gives.

Who would do ill ne'er wants occasion.

Words are women, deeds are men.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" person. . . . Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.