Quotes About Character

Porque Smith era cruel, con aquella crueldad característica de lo cobardes. Dispuesto siempre a humillarse y a huir ante los golpes o las injurias de un hombre, se vengaba de ello con los seres más débiles.

Martin'in sebze ald??? Amerikal? manav, iÅŸ ilkeleri hayli güçlü olmal?yd? ki, beÅŸ dolara yükselene kadar veresiyesini kesmedi. F?r?nc? iki dolarda, kasapsa dört dolarda veresiye defterini kapatt?. Martin bütün borçlar?n? toplayarak dünyada toplam on dört dolar seksen beÅŸ sentlik kredi itibar? olduÄŸunu gördü.

Tutte le cattive maniere sono abitudini; ed anche le buone, però. Dipende da noi che le abitudini siano buone o cattive.

Hayat?nda ahlâk timsali olarak hareket etmiyorsan ahlâk kurallar? boÅŸunad?r. Bizler öÄŸretilerini hayatlar?nda uygulamama cüretini gösteren öÄŸretmenlerden miyiz yoksa?

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.

When you flaunt what you've got, when you intimidate, when you treat people badly, you lose power.

It will not help us if this tradition is created for us, to be read about in yet another book. To create a wilder self, the self must live the life of the wild, mold a particular form of human character, a form of life. Relics will not do, tourism will not do, books will not do.

Now then!" cried Vita Palas. "Don't you go slanging me, you raddled old hussy! I know your kind, all skin and spleen, and wrinkles to wrap over all! Your own morals are sewage, you with your dancing-boys and gigolos! Don't you try slanging me any more, or I'll snatch off your wig and really explain what I think of you! It will not be nice! It will turn your long nose blue!

First coming aboard, a new arrival makes a cautious survey of the crew, trying to winnow the affable and good-natured from the surly and truculent. Some of the crewmen will seem easygoing, happy-go-lucky, good-fellows-all; others may appear to be reserved or even aloof. Yet I found that at the end of a voyage these aloof ones were often the persons whom I grew to like and respect the most, while those who seemed so agreeable turned out to be rascals.

The Mongols, and certainly Genghis Khan in particular, placed great importance on sudden individual acts of unexpected heroism. Those are the moments that reveal not just the character of the person, but the soul itself. Many people are paralyzed by fear or, equally as debilitating, by indecision. The hero acts, and often fails, but acts nonetheless.

The dual capacity for friendship and enmity forged in Genghis Khan's youth endured throughout his life and became the defining trait of his character.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Tell me, my heart, would you rather wed a handsome man or a wealthy one?" Zariya considered the question. "If I had the luxury of choice, I would choose a kind man.

mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us that we might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

You like him? I nodded. I like him. Hell, Mogwai likes him. You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat, she said in a pragmatic voice.

Now, what are you going to wear for Halloween, Pearl?

Not you. Only Fräulein Donat.

You can't separate the way you behave when you're communicating with your spouse from the way you communicate with your co-workers or boss. It's important to be the same person all day, every day.

King, Gandhi, and Kepler become great because they make choices full of moral courage.

Alaska did not produce supermen, but in its formative periods it was served by men of character and determination, and it is a fortunate land which knows such public servants.

A novel…is a golden kettle into which you pour all of experience… You can toss in great chunks of meat and fragrant bones and stock left over from the meals before. You can add fragments of character or the whole man. You can have scenes that fill a quarter of the book and others that flash by in a fleeting glance. In a novel there's nothing you can't do, if you do it with passion.

STEED: But in a presidential crisis I expect him to be presidential.

Remember the story of what your god Yahweh said not far from here? 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature. Yahweh seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looketh on the heart.