Quotes About Character

I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in.

She was the bravest, quietest girl she knew how to be at a time like that.

best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he's

It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that.

the best way to judge what a man will do is by looking at what he's done in the past.

It's not only possible, it pretty much describes every human being on the planet. Everybody is a good person and a bad person at the same time. The only real variation is in the balance. How much good to how much bad. When a person has a bigger good side, we call him a good person. But it's never absolute.

But people can change. And sometimes they can change because of what they see in you. The way you are can inspire somebody. So I would say . . . just be a really good, clear example of what you hope both of you can be.

Biblical stories play an important role in the elementary child's search for answers. Coles found that children relate the experiences of biblical characters to the events of their own lives. As children think about these stories, they see themselves in the characters and see God working and relating to those biblical people. Certain stories grab children, inspire their imagination, and draw them to reflect on life, meaning, and God.

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.

You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

It's a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you're the protagonist, but really, you're just backstory.

I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist.

No one's good just from being born any place.

You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.

I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.

I began my life as a character in my father's films.

Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.

He'll never be good if he can't choose to be nasty. It's the choice that makes the good.

Lugudel on kombeks oma iseloomu muuta. Nad on taltsutamatud, nad ei allu reeglitele ja kalduvad huligaansusele ja kustutuskummide loopimisele. Sellepärast tuleb nad paksudesse, rasketesse raamatutesse kinni panna, et nad ei pääseks välja ega teeks pahandust.

Bravery is not seen in one act. It is measured by the choices and deeds that fill our everyday lives.