Quotes About Character

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.

What we do flows from who we are.

I sometimes think that the Russian character is the end of kindness, you know? The end of everything that is nice and good in this world.

A noble, articulate, mixed-race liberal icon takes over the Presidency of the United States. Does he make the world a better place? No, he does not. A narcissistic sociopath with a thin skin and a bad dye job disgraces the Presidency of the United States. Does he make the world a worse place? No, he does not.

And so a character named Red Devil seemed a proxy voice, speaking for everybody, when he would cackle hysterically and yell out, "Manteno, 1963. I'm history!" Manteno was the state mental hospital but nothing beyond that was elaborated. To be history in America doesn't mean to be recorded, noted, added to the narrative, but precisely the opposite, to be gone, banished, left behind. To be history is to be cut from the story.

life is a bad reason for including a character in a story.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.

Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)

The cover letter is seen by our actions. (La lettre de motivation se voit par nos actions)"

We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

"An observer of human nature, sir," said Mr. Pickwick.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.