Quotes About Character

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

Mark Strong is an amazing person. I just kind of enjoyed watching him. He is just so calm, dedicated, professional, and an absolute gent as well.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Most women have no characters at all.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

It is well established among us that you may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people's money in your pocket or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands or mud on your shoes.

we think it ordinary to spend twelve or sixteen or twenty years of a person's life and many thousands of public dollars on "education" —and not a dime or a thought on character.

the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

I've always been considered an asshole for about as long as I can remember. That's just my style.

Duplicity thy name is woman!

This was a man, tall and broad-shouldered, forged like steel in the furnace of life.

No fim, o desejo era como uma doença, uma loucura, ou ambas. Deixei de pensar nos outros, desfrutava o prazer onde quer que o encontrasse e seguia adiante. Esqueci que cada pequena ação cotidiana pode fazer ou desfazer um caráter e que tudo aquilo que fazemos no segredo da alcova, teremos que confessá-lo um dia, gritando do alto dos telhados.