Quotes About Character

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Insisting that architecture maintain such a profound lack of character without even the hint of any feeling is not a lack of position or an accidental design flaw but rather a commitment to a once progressive but now painfully outmoded position struggling to maintain its faded hegemony. What was once radical abstraction in pursuit of universality and utopia is today just banal accommodation in pursuit of free corporate expansion.

But we cannot all be saints. Some of us have to be stewards.

Sitting here, and thus, she had attained to a state which she could never have desired, not even conceived. And being so unforeseen, so alien to her character and upbringing, her felicity had an absolute perfection; no comparison between the desired and the actual could tear holes in it, no ambition whisper, But this is not quite what you wanted, is it?

Honesty, humility and hard work will lead to success in life.

People say we are defined by the choices that we make;

Money will only make you more of what you already are.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

But you see, it is the wilderness that weeds out the saints from the "aint's.

God can appreciate our differences and still create unity. It is like a conductor who can orchestrate extremely different instruments into producing a harmonious, unified sound. Together we produce a sound of harmony that expresses the multifaceted character of God.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

What's inside a person is more valuable than what's on the outside," Mother constantly preached. "Don't be fooled by the exterior.

He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ's life and live his teachings, we become more like him.

The man of integrity who is true to self and to God will choose the right whether or not anyone is looking because he is self-driven, not externally controlled.

Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.

Character has outlived its day. In ancient, primitive times, when biologically weak man struggled against omnipotent nature, character was useful, beneficial; with hideous labor it shoved the heavy stone of human impotence forward. We learned to praise ourselves, to admire character, to prostrate ourselves before it, make a fetish of it. But today no one has the courage to discredit character, although, psychologically speaking, it is now a throwback, simply reactionary.

In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

Polak, jak da? mu wolno??, to wszystkich przeskoczy. Polak, jak musi czeka?, to wpada w z?o??. Polak, jak my?li, to zawsze senny. Polak, jak ponarzeka, zaraz zdrowszy. Polak, jak przyjdzie wieczór, to zaraz wspomina. Polak, jak widzi balkon, to chce skaka?. Polak, jak wpadnie w sza? to biada, ?lepej i gnu?nej Europie. Polka, jak zechce rzuci miliardera.

Nie rób zgrywy, bo powiem ludziom, kim jeste?.

People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them.

A hypocrite is one who sets good examples only when he has an audience.