Quotes About Character

Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble.

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for

When people show you who they are; believe them.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay

Wie man seine Zeit verbringt, das definiert auch, wer man ist.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

Ketika aku melihat orang-orang yang berkarakter, yang mereka miliki adalah konsistensi.

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.

Whenever I think of these writers together, I am reminded that what gives a city its special character is not just its topography or its buildings but rather the sum total of every chance encounter, every memory, letter, color, and image jostling in its inhabitants' crowded memories after they have been living, like me, on the same streets for fifty years.

Sigara ister misin, sinirini, öfkeni al?r. Süleyman'?n hâlâ öfkesi burnunda.

What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life)

Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

To have done no man a wrong… to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude—this is to be a man

The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

SAVE. If you want to test a young man and ascertain whether nature made him for a king or a subject, give him a thousand dollars and see what he will do with it. If he is born to conquer and command, he will put it quietly away till he is ready to use it as opportunity offers. If he is born to serve, he will immediately begin to spend it in gratifying his ruling propensity. —Parton.

The best legacy a man can leave his children is the memory and influence of a large, broad, finely developed mentality, a well-disciplined, highly cultured mind, a sweet, beautiful character which has enriched everybody who came in contact with it, a refined personality, a magnanimous spirit.

Character is power, and is the best advertisement in the world.

In a word trust that man in nothing. Who has not a conscience in everything. — Laurence Sterne