Quotes About Character

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

Coward: someone who in a bad situation thinks with his feet

The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.

The gamin Gavroche puts in a strong plea for mercy, and his sister Eponine, if Hugo had chosen to take more trouble with her, might have been a great, and is actually the most interesting, character. But Cosette—the cosseted Cosette—Hugo did not know our word or he would have seen the danger—is merely a pretty and rather selfish little doll, and her precious lover Marius is almost ineffable.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixotes with a sense for ideals, but mad.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends : have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

When you race you are under oath. You are testifying as to who you are.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.