Quotes About Character

Fate is what is given to us; destiny is what we are summoned to become. In the interplay of the two, human character plays a role. Hubris, or the fantasy that we know enough to know enough, seduces us toward choices that lead to unintended consequences. Hamartia, the failure to see clearly enough, to see humbly enough, is a lens through which we imperfectly envision the world, unavoidably distorting and reductive, but convincing at the moment nonetheless.

I never thought I could write this much and now that it's coming to an end, I feel sad that I have to stop, sort of the way you feel at the end of a really good book and you know you're going to miss the main character. But in this case, the main character is me! Myself. Joe (formerly JoDan) Bunch. —Joe Bunch

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

So in The Thin Red Line 1st/Sgt Warden became 1st/Sgt Welsh, Pvt Prewitt became Pvt Witt, Mess/Sgt Stark became Mess/Sgt Storm. While remaining the same people as before. In Whistle Welsh becomes Mart Winch, Witt becomes Bobby Prell, Storm becomes John Strange.

There are some people," she said, smiling at him, "whose weaknesses seem to be strength, instead of weakness.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Onlar güzel insanlar, Onlar güzel insanlar, Onlar güzel insanlar, Kimse inkar edemez. Yalanc? deÄŸillerse, Yalan deÄŸillerse.

I believe you're a good fellow but you have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human individual.

And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they look like ten minutes after they walk out of a room.

People were not what they said. They were not what they thought. They were not what they promised. People were what they did. When the final tally was done, nothing else mattered.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

People are what they do, not what they say, not what they think, not what they pretend to be.

I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

Be your own man, even if you don't add up to much.

PEOPLE ARE WHAT they do, not what they think, not what they say.

I'm a Muun of my word

Galen didn't know anything about Tarkin, other than that he had served in the Republic Navy before being appointed adjutant general. A tall man some ten or fifteen years older than Galen, he had sunken cheeks, a high brow, and a look of penetrating intelligence.

Titles are granted, but it's your behavior that earns you respect.

Building character and culture is a function of aligning your beliefs and behaviors with principles that are external, objective, and self-evident. They operate regardless of your awareness of them. What principles guide an authentic leader? Authentic leaders are humble. They are unassuming in the way that they share the glory with their team members and are modest about their accomplishments. Their courage ensures that they have the integrity to make the right choices when necessary. Skills

If you follow someone who's universally viewed as having impeccable character and strong integrity, then you're likely to be viewed the same. If you willingly follow someone who's considered dishonest and unethical, your own image is tarnished.

So he drinks and grows plants and goes to church," Potts said. "So far, he sounds Catholic.

Just because you toast marshmallows with a kid on a camping trip doesn't mean he'll become a Boy Scout.

The woman, he thought, was all good handwriting.

Son, you looks like a character witness for a nightmare. You ugly enough to have your face capped." "We can't all be pretty," he grumbled. "Well, you ain't no gemstone, son. You got a face for swim trunk ads." "I'm seventy-one, Sister Paul. I'm a spring chicken compared to you. I don't see no mens doing backflips at the door over you. At least I ain't got enough wrinkles in my face to hold ten days of rain.