Quotes About Character

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline -- who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices -- do not qualify to lead.

No leader lives a day without criticism, and humility will never be more on trial than when criticism comes.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.'   Emotions

If you find yourself talking about everything you have or showing off by being publicly generous instead of privately, then you have a problem with pride.

She'd gotten through the entire evening without killing anyone. Lieutenant Eve Dallas, cop to the bone, figured the restraint showed enormous strength of character.

What's your status? she asked him. Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours? Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

If you knew her, you'd understand Eve is no one's mark. Regardless, I wouldn't betray her for anything. Or anyone.

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What

Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

No. Nature, nurture, both matter, both form us. But at some point, at so many points, the choices we make, the paths we take, they define us. You made yours. She's made hers." "Yeah.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution. —NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

Kindness isn't a job, Eve, it's a choice.

Out of terrible times, perhaps more than ordinary ones, heroes and villains spring. Sometimes there's little difference between them but a choice, and the choice made defines them. Look at the choices.

I don't like the man--less now than I did before--but I can't help but admire his ... stamina. That's dick-thinking. Well ... Roarke glanced down at his own. It does have opinions.

Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that make us.

Everyone likes everybody and Pettibone is the original nice guy." "Wife's a dink," Peabody offered. "The dink was still smart enough to hook a rich husband.

Maybe a little break," she muttered. "Just maybe." She'd lucked out with Mason Tobias. He might've been a little dingy

You continue to not be and asshole, Kyung. I do my best to maintain that benchmark.

Money without honor is a disease. BALZAC

So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a hero...Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for?

Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.