Quotes About Character

It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.

Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are.

I suggest starting with a cat; they have unusual personalities.

Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character.

El aspecto que tengo no cambia quién soy.

She took the fork. "Thank you," she said, solemn. "All good weapons deserve a name," said Tornac. "Especially magical ones. What would you call this one?" Essie thought for a second and then said, "Mister Stabby!

He was rarely happy throughout his life but he was a good Rider and a good man.

hands, and an assortment of scars even Roran respected. He liked what he saw, and he could tell they approved

And Arya! He cringed

No one thinks of himself as a villain, and few make decisions that they think are wrong. A person may dislike his choice, but he will stand by it, because even in the worst of circumstances, he belives that it was the best option available to him at the time. On it's own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well. -Oromis (Eldest)

Oromis twisted Eragon's hands around again and gestured at his calluses. You now have the hands of a warrior, Eragon. Take care they do not become the hands of a man who revels in the carnage of war.

Humility, rather than involving the presence of certain thoughts or behaviors, might better be construed as the absence of narcissism, self-enhancement, or defensiveness.

What Self-Awareness Looks Like Dave T., regional service manager Self-awareness score = 95* What people who work with him say: "Dave has clear long-term goals, and he doesn't make sacrifices for short-term gains.

Bad has a big mouth, that's why it gets all the attention. But don't be fooled, he told them. Good doesn't need to brag. Good knows it's stronger.

Honor is an overvalued commodity.

They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

En suma todo el mundo, si se mira bien, participa de alguna de esas categorías. Cada uno de nosotros de vez en cuando es un cretino, un imbécil, un estúpido o un loco. Digamos que la persona normal es la que combina razonablemente todos esos componentes o tipos ideales.

There is something in us all, he said, that is greater than ourselves, that works through us and can be used in the making of character. The central core of life is personality. To respect the personality of others is the beginning of virtue, and to enforce respect for it is the first duty of the individual toward all forms of government, all organizations and systems which men contrive to enslave and limit their fellows.

As a matter of fact there wasn't much to choose between Nazi and British radios in this crisis, so far as moral character was concerned; it was all "propaganda," serving the purposes of governments which didn't want their publics to realize what they were up to.