Quotes About Character

I admire intelligence more than any other quality, except perhaps a good heart. It's rare.

But the real test of honor for a man is to live and learn to love himself.

The manner in which information is collected, stored, exchanged, and used has changed forever – and with it, the character of the threats to individual privacy. But while the electronic revolution touches almost every part of our lives, it is not, of course, technology itself that is the villain, but the uses to which it is put.

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ugly thing: a liar. Character is always in the making, with each morally valenced action, whether right or wrong, affecting our characters, the people who we are.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.

Nothing of that tongue survived into my generation but a few insults: Yiddish can describe defects of character with the precision that Inuit describes ice or Japanese rain.

pretty is as pretty does

There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.

It seemed certain that Mrs Morpurgo must be kind and noble, for her husband said she was beautiful, and no beautiful woman would have married such an ugly man, had she not valued goodness above everything.

Jeho nedostatkem nebylo jeho konání, ale jeho ml?ení.

Der Sturm klärt den trübsten Himmel auf. Nicht allein unser Charakter und noch weniger die Welt, in die wir hineingeboren werden, sind unser Schicksal. Im Hinterfragen und nicht im Glauben an eine Fügung finden wir Selbstvergewisserung.

PÃ…â"¢esto si Wild nedÄ›lá ani nadÄ›je, ani nároky na to, aby ho jmenovali vedoucím skupiny. Rád stojí ve druhé Ã…â"¢adÄ›.

Je to sice náÅ¡ velitel, ale není to v?dce. Scott je egoista.

Shackleton sice na cestách do vnitrozemí ledového kontinentu neohrožoval Scottovu autoritu, ale jejich charaktery jsou pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ rozdílné.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

Le garde sut que cette femme ne mentait pas. Elle n'était pas de celles qui s'abaissent à mentir, quelles que soient les circonstances.

JUNE 5 IN THE MEDITATION of mental quiescence, in the nine states of mind, there is a state where striving must be abandoned; an effortless concentration is necessary at a certain stage. It is effortless: that means your mind becomes very tranquil — with good qualities and its character complete. At that moment, if you make an effort that disturbs the tranquillity. So in order to maintain that pure tranquillity effortless effort must be used.

The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today

LAZY AND IRRESPONSIBLE This isn't a politically correct position to have, but I'm convinced that the lack of moral character in many black men is the primary cause of the breakdown of the black family, high crime rates, domestic violence, and other social problems within the black community.

Vestis virum facit.

I'm the one who ought to get angry," said Fiver. "But I'm no good at it, that's the trouble.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.