Quotes About Character

She had made a terrible, grievous mistake. She couldn't take it back, however much she might hope for such a chance; she couldn't undo it, but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

Isabelle and the men were approaching the

and a pronounced chin and deep-set gray

Rachel, as tall as the boys, with eyebrows that grew faster than a lie and a voice like a foghorn.

We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

You do honor her—and me—every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be.

But we aren't defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

But if we shrink from them, if we lose our goodness, we let them erase us. We cannot do that, Eva. We cannot.

It's the cracks in us that make us who we are, Zus had said, and perhaps he'd been right. When a linden tree broke, it often grew back, stronger and more beautiful in its damaged places. What if the same was true for man?

Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

Do you know what else this very wise person told me?" he asks. "She said that we're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth. And I believe, Mrs. Abrams, that you chose to be a hero, even if you don't see it that way." He

Could they all be that evil? Or had they discovered a switch within themselves that allowed them to turn off their civility? Did they go home to their wives at night and simply flip the switches back on, become human once more?

refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart.

But maybe it shouldn't be. Perhaps they need only know whether you are kind, decent, capable, well-intentioned. It is within your own heart that you find God. And we all walk our own path toward him. Don't we?

We aren't defined by the names we carry, or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads, I know that now. We are defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

it's what's inside a person that counts. And sometimes, you have to walk through fire in order to find your true self. Maybe this is your fire.

But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.

It isn't what characteristics, what traits you've inherited from your parents that make you who you are. It's the choices you make, Henry, that decide what kind of person you become.

Being a mom is a big job, with small and memorable moments calling on our patience and building our character every day.

Hip Hop is GOD's response to our suffering and this gospel celebrates that response and the personal character that caused such divine responses to occur.

Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men.

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition." -Interview with Tasha Robinson, avclub.com February 14, 2001.

Never lie, assess character, appeal to principles, answer every question, and determine what impediments might keep them from speaking. Reporters need persistence, not the name of some major publication behind them, to crack a story.

There's an old Mexican saying that goes: "Tell me how you die and I'll tell you who you are.