Quotes About Character

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it?

Donald Cameron has his own character in the world now!?" Skeletor exclaimed, in somewhat the same tone of voice as a tribune might have said, Hannibal has crossed the Alps with elephants!?

If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite.

That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it's almost funny," Arsibalt observed.

The problem with those honorable men," Avi says, "is that they expect everyone else to be honorable in the same way.

Doug has probably done all kinds of ballsy things of which Randy will never be aware, and Randy respects him anyway because of his bearing. Maybe the way to get that kind of bearing is to go around doing ballsy things in secret that somehow percolate up to the surface of your personality.

walking in dignity. I don't know how to put that into a better concept, either, but it has to do with the way one carries oneself in one's life, and the way one honors others, and the path others are taking.

Every act is an act of self-definition.

Seek only to be genuine. Strive to be sincere. If you wish to undo all the "damage" you imagine yourself to have done, demonstrate that in your actions.

You can _know_ yourself to be generous, but unless you _do_ something which displays generosity, you have nothing but a concept. You can _know_ yourself to be kind, but unless you _do_ someone a kindness, you have nothing but an idea about yourself.

What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

She puts on her poker face; I don't have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face.

A fine woman, that,' said Mr Appleby generously. 'Y' think so,' returned Fr Duddleswell, his mind not really on it. 'I would trust her with me life but not with anything important.

Wearing a leather vest and an Indiana Jones hat, Steve P. was equal parts Hell's Angel and Native American shaman. Rasputin was a strip club bouncer with mutton-chop sideburns who looked like a steroid-jacked Wolverine.

Proverbs 23:7 says, "As he thinks within himself, so he is.

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Someone once asked me, How are Christians supposed to act? Christianity is not an act; it is a real thing. We cannot be right with God and not be real.

Is who you are determined by what you do, or is what you do determined by who you are?

It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do.

I'm a good Methodist and a bitch. But only once a month.

Definitely a bit sassy. Maybe I bring that out in women. I advised her

He could be an officer without worrying about being a gentleman.