Quotes About Character

Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel lehren Demut, das brauche ich für meine Charakterentwicklung.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

Tough as nails, sweet as peaches.

Who says that taking the supposed high road is the best path?

I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad Wizard.

I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy. "Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.

A man is known by the company who he keeps

I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.

In the same way, a believer and his Savior can continue many hours in the silent fellowship of love. And although the believer may be busy with the ordinary things of life, he can be mindful that every detail of his life is touched by the character of God's presence, and can have the awareness of His approval and blessing.

Christians with the most spiritual depth are generally those who have been taken through the most intense and deeply anguishing fires of the soul. If you have been praying to know more of Christ, do not be surprised if He leads you through the desert or through a furnace of pain.

The trials of life are sent to make us, not to break us.

God finds His best soldiers on the mountain of affliction.

That sorrow and privation, the yoke borne in the youth, the soul's enforced restraint, are all conducive to an iron tenacity and strength of purpose, and endurance or fortitude, which are the indispensable foundation and framework of a noble character.

Life is about choices and their choices determine you.

People live so much in a world of appearances, that claim lack of character is madness.

What do you do, everyone can do, but what you are, nobody can be.

Well then," Faye said. "Now that you've heard our story, we have just one question to ask you." She fixed Cassie with an odd half smile and said in a sweet, false voice, "Are you planning to be a good witch or a bad witch?

Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.

Julian: She's very strong, you know. Much too good for you. Tom: I know. But she's a thousand times too good for you.

Just admit it, Elena. You're attracted to Damon and all his bad boy glory- Caroline Forbes

In grace and beauty and sheer fascination, they were alike. But where Katherine had been a white kitten, Elena was a snow-white tigress.

Finally, I see Damon the way Father had seen him: too imperious, too willful, too quick to make up his mind, and too slow to change it.

For a moment Eustace contemplated an existence spent in pleasing himself. How would he set about it? He had been told by precept, and had learned from experience, that the things he did to please himself usually ended in making other people grieved and angry, and were therefore wrong. Was he to spend his life in continuous wrong-doing, and in making other people cross? There would be no pleasure in that. Indeed what pleasure was there, except in living up to people's good opinion of him?