Quotes About Character

A leader who is successful at work but a failure at home is not a successful leader.

Sometimes you have to choose between honesty and kindness, and I've always been a sucker for the kind side.

When I honor, I don't keep track of it. I don't save it for later as a leverage point to get the other person to honor me. I do it because the behavior is consistent with the person I want to be.

A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that people of character have an inner worth, while people of talent have a market value (XXV 1174), and emphasizes that this worth is created by the person himself. Most importantly, however, he claims that character 'consists in the basic characteristic [GrundAnlage] of the will' (XXV 1174).

In Pinchot, he saw someone "who could relish, not run from a rainstorm," as he wrote. Just like himself.

There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.

the West of open spaces, or the West of mythology, this region's hold on the American character never seemed stronger. A person puts on a cowboy hat anywhere in the world, even if alone in a room, and starts acting differently—sometimes stupidly, sometimes nobly, but it is a new personality.

There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune," Roosevelt said just before he became president.

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

Don't do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You'll always know.

Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: "We are what we do repeatedly.

you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

About Face, de David H. Hackworth. Otro

We are whatever we pretend to be.

You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal.

In order to 'have' you must 'do,' and in order to 'do' you must 'be.'" Terry Crews

You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Adversity doesn't create character; it reveals it.

Qué decisiones de las que has tomado te han convertido en la persona que eres?»

Integrity is the only path where you will never get lost.

Most likely, the problem won't be around in a year, but my reputation of how I dealt with it will.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most,