Quotes About Character

Always resemble yourself.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

One is so much harder if one has a touch of the man in one, don't you think, and more able to bear things.  But I'm afraid I'm all woman.

Her face was falling loose, but her eyes were calm, and there was something strong in her that made it seem she was not old; merely her wrinkles and loose cheeks were an anachronism.

He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.

thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

A person who is influenced by the quality of a thing, or who changes his speech or manner according to the appearance or position of the people he meets, is not a man working in the Way.

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, ". . and speak all the good I know of everybody.

The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes. You deserve very little credit for being what you are

A great man shows his greatness," said Carlyle, "by the way he treats little men.

Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Experience has taught me," says Sam Wood, "that it is safest to drop, as quickly as possible, people who pretend to be what they aren't.

But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Shakespeare said, "Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

King George V had a set of six maxims displayed on the walls of his study at Buckingham Palace. One of these maxims said: 'Teach me neither to proffer nor receive cheap praise.

The two highest levels of influence are achieved when 1) people follow you because of what you've done for them, and 2) people follow you because of who you are. In other words, the highest levels of influence are reached when generosity and trustworthiness surround your behavior.

Lincoln did not belong to any church, and avoided religious discussions even with his best friends. However, he once told Herndon that his religious code was like that of an old man named Glenn, in Indiana, whom he had heard speak at a church meeting, and who said: "When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Un gran hombre -aseguró Carlyle- demuestra su grandeza por la forma en que trata a los pequeños