Quotes About Character

Worry about your character and not your reputation, because your character is who you are, and your reputation is only what people think of you.

Beauty is when your outside intrigues people and your inside makes them stay.

Actions speak louder than words.

Never try to destroy someone else's life with a lie when yours can be destroyed with the truth.

Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

We live in a world of myriad conflicting loyalties. It is not purity, but the nature of the balance we achieve that displays our true character.

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

If you would know a man's good and evil points, you should know the underlings and retainers he loves and employs, and the friends with whom he mixes intimately. If the lord is not correct, none of his friends and retainers will be correct.

In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. —Eleanor Roosevelt

He walked out without his money. The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Even if there is dishonor in the truth, Chevalier, less that dishonor if one confesses it in defence of his person.

It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie

It's not just how firm a man's handshake is that define him, son. Any fool can have a strong grip. It's the way a man meets your eyes, or doesn't, that tells you who he is. That says whether he's dealing with you honestly or not.

The beauty of the soul is shown in the face

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

The famous speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, included the sentence: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". Today's left-wing, through identity politics, affirmative-action policies, and hiring quotas, has shattered that dream.

You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

I always figured nerves were for Jane Austen characters and helium-voiced girls who never buy their round; I would no more have turned shaky in a crisis than I would have carried smelling salts around in my reticule.

profound trauma—and clearly this would qualify—can transform a person's entire character, you know: turn a strong person into a trembling wreck, a happy nature melancholic, a gentle one vicious. It can shatter you into a million pieces, and rearrange the remains in an utterly unrecognizable form.

People are complicated. When you're a little kid, you don't realize, you think people are just one thing; but then you get older, and you realize it's not that simple. Chris wasn't that simple. He was cruel and he was kind. And he didn't like realizing that. It bothered him, that he wasn't just one thing. I think it made him feel . . .