Quotes About Character

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behaviour.

You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero. He can say he doesn't like pie, when he sees there is not enough to go round.

[I]f I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. It is not necessarily a moralizer; it does not necessarily improve one's character; it does not even teach good manners. It is a beautiful work of nature, like an eagle or a high sunrise. You owe it no duty. If you like it, listen to it; if not, let it alone.

But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

...the sexual organs show more character than the actors' faces... There are phalluses in porno whose distended veins speak of the integrity of the hardworking heart, but there is so little specific content in the faces! Hard core lulls after it excites, and finally it puts the brain to sleep.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth.

Ein ehrlicher Mann mag stecken, in welchem Kleide er will, man muss ihn lieben.

She seemed awfully pleasant and sweet, and her mother wasn't like that a bit. I knew her mother very well indeed." "Well, Mamma, you have to remember she had a father, too.

You know it really doesn't matter about clothes if we look clean and neat and behave well. I think we've been placing too high a value on looks anyway. Of course looks do count a little, but they are, after all, only a trifle beside real worth. And, if we can't impress that girl with our refinement by our actions, why, we can put on all the clothes in the universe, and we won't be able to do it any better.

I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

realized that when everything is stripped away from you and you have nothing, you find out what you really are down deep inside. What I was starting to see was not pretty.

Going from the pursuit of perfection in all things to ultimate depravity isn't a journey anybody makes in one step, it's a series of small ones – each one justifiable in its own isolated way. But after you've taken a hundred of those small steps, you're a long way from who you were at the start.

Those with courage and character to speak the truth always seem sinister to the ignorant." - First Chaplain Erebus

When the great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name—He marks—not that you won or lost—but how you played the game.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes - not that you won or lost - But HOW you played the Game. "Alumnus Football