Quotes About Character

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.

Hero isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Your characters have arms and legs and faces. Use them. Use attribution. Control the delivery of dialogue. Support it with actions, or negate it with actions.

Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Heroinsucht, und in einer Welt, wo man der Faulheit bezichtigt wird, nur weil man sich nicht die Beine rasiert, gilt das Totsein als der ultimative Charakterfehler. Als ob man vor dem Leben weggelaufen wäre – sich einfach nicht genug Mühe gegeben, sein Potential nicht voll ausgeschöpft hätte. Du Drückeberger!

Worse than alcoholism or heroin addiction, dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. It's as if you've shirked life—simply not made enough serious effort to live up to your full potential.

He was a nice guy, Jimmy, but rich or not he was dumb as a bag of retards, and smoking all that weed didn't help.

we're a blend, all of us, a cocktail peanut mix of niceness and badness, all bound up in a bundle of inexcusable indolence and ignorance punctuated by unanticipated moments of genuine heroism

Don't you dare say he's going to be a bandit. He'll be an angel.

La conducta privada de un hombre no puede ser separada de su conducta pública; son dos caras de una misma moneda.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Be, rather than seem

There is a principle that is often painful to young intercessors who are full of zeal: God is not in a hurry. He takes the time He needs to build His character in us. He will patiently and methodically clean up our wicked hearts so He can allow us to pray His purposes into human affairs. Most of us want everything to happen immediately, but God loves to marinate.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

Mrs. Bennet, Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, Mrs. Elton, the Steele sisters, Fanny Dashwood, Elizabeth Elliot, Mrs. Clay, Lady Catherine de Bourgh … all differentiated, all unique in their unpleasantness.

she really does seem to admire Elizabeth. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, & how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.34

strong and courageous—traits as essential in a good submissive as obedience and grace.

Catspaw was becoming a real goblin king.

The only way to avoid the consequences of uncomfortable moral concessions in your life is to never start making them in the first place. When the first step down that path presents itself, turn around and walk the other way.

if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

Hawaiians believe a baby's name should tell you what that person will grow up to be.