Quotes About Character

I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.

Every bad person is a little good. And every good person is a little bad.

Professionalism is a frame of mind, not a paycheck.

It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it. Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time.

It ain't how hard you are when you're standing over top of someone that really matters. It's how hard you are when someone's standing over top of you that shows what you're made of.

she did not know how to be anything else.

They were kind people who thought they meant well. They'd been government-selected as fit parents, certified as people of good moral character who could teach good patriotic values.

A man's character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.

Alyec is steely-eyed, chisel-faced young Russian. -Paul

?yilik eden mükafat bekliyorsa, tefecidir.

Our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

We cannot be truly peaceful unless we have the invincible quality of peace within us; a feeble or temporary peacefulness could always be disturbed. If we try to be kind and peaceful in a naive way, encountering a different or unexpected situation might interfere with our awareness of peace because that peace has no strength in it, has no character. So peace must be stable, deeprooted, and solid.

and your sense of personal authenticity and power should be resolved into virtue.

Humility is not just something we develop so we can claim to be more spiritual. It also allows you to see your actions more clearly.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.