Quotes About Character

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

The ancient sages tell us that it is only through daily self-renewal of character that we can attain and continue at the height of our powers.

Living your life authentically means living your life being true to what is highest and best within you without misrepresentation.

God can't force his children to become like him. It's something they have to want, a blessing they have to fight for and be willing to sacrifice to attain.

But Ana, how could I have been such a lousy judge of character? I groaned. Because you don't much care to judge people's characters, she answered after a moment's thought. It's a strength, you know, as well as weakness. It was small consolation.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

You always take the high road, Master Kenobi," said Desh.

For the first time, Jacqueline heard Charisma sound less like an enthusiastic girl and more like a woman whose hard won maturity had cost her dearly

I've been a foul-mouthed knave." "Well, I don't know." "A beetle-headed malfeasor." "Nothing so—" "A base, proud tottyhead." He paused, but she said nothing. "Aren't you going to object?" "No," she drawled the word. "Humility is so refreshing in a man.

You really owe me a lot for locking you up. It's improved your character immensely." She didn't giggle well. It wasn't in her character and it showed him only too clearly the fight he had ahead to keep her with him. He smiled as she wished him to do and said, "I'll give you what's coming to you. Don't worry about that.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

He just likes everyone to think he's a badass." "I am a badass, damn it," Jackson said. He picked up the comb and carefully started on the next thick strand of hair. "You seem to be the only one who isn't aware of it.

You know, Mikhail, I'm beginning to think my very first assessment of your character was correct. You're arrogant and bossy." He swam toward her with lazy, easy strokes. "But I am sexy.

Honor is a damnable trait and one that may not last eternity.

You're a good man, Vittorio. No matter what, you're a good man.

I don't know why you think you don't look like a nice guy. You look tough, like you can handle yourself, but you don't look mean.

I let myself down a million times, she confessed. We all do that. It is getting back up that defines your character, Julija, and you did that.

Never had any trouble distinguishing between a varmint and a gentleman. Where I come from, we get rid of the varmints.

Unfortunately, this type of character defamation often follows the victim doggedly, and on occasion, has done irreparable damage. If retractions are printed, which is rare in the offending newspapers, they are seldom noted by the reader. I think it can be compared adequately to taking a bag full of feathers to a high hill and throwing them into the wind--retrieving all of them would be an impossible job.

Gregory's words remain a sharp and timely rebuke to the continuing temptation to practice theology as though we could separate the exercise of our mind from the development of our character.

It's hardly a wonder that they call London the most elusive city in the world. Its character changes from one street to the next. There's no rhyme or reason, no pattern to the place. You could take six people at random from the centre of town, ask them to write down all the places they visit regularly and find that their circles of movement don't overlap at more than one or two points. Each of them would see a different city.

It is said that the hallmark of a gentleman is that he is only ever rude intentionally. Arthur Bryant was no gentleman. His rudeness came from an inability to cloak his opinions in even the most cursory civility. He believed in good manners at the meal table and bad manners almost everywhere else.

Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.