Quotes About Character

Character is always more caught than taught.

Beauty is not everything!

A well-meaning man, Dhai Ma liked to say, is more dangerous because he believes in the rightness of what he does. Give me an honest rascal any day!

If there is one thing his story has taught me, it is that when all the dross is melted away from the human heart, only gold remains.

Seorang pahlawan tetap pahlawan, tidak peduli apa kastanya. Kemampuan lebih penting daripada kelahiran yang kebetulan. -Duryodana

Inner Purification or Character Building is extremely important. Without thorough continuous Character Building, a disciple will spiritually fall. This is exactly what happened to some of MCKS' disciples. They did not focus enough on Character Building and spiritually fell because of pride, self delusion, arrogance, greed and dishonesty.

Meditating regularly is like being fertilized. Throw the fertilizer on the ground and whatever is in the ground - either good or bad seeds - will grow. Everything, whether vice or virtue, is magnified. Unless a person in the spiritual path practices character-building, (s)he may tend to become worse.

Come, let me know whether thou art a creature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it's the only thing.

Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader.

Good people don't rush in to do evil where angels fear to tread; instead, they start by straying only a small way away from their moral center, and each successive step down is hardly different, barely noticeable, until it is too late and their behavior is shocking and may even be…awful.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

ARÁCNIDO" si no te importa. Los Spiderman somos muy sensibles

You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

regard as nothing place and office, when either is to be attained or held at the sacrifice of honor.

Like I said, some guys have a code they live by, some guys don't. John Ceepack? He has a code. Me? I'm working on it.

Just be who you are, Luigi. Everybody else is already taken.

You are what you allow the Lord to make you.

Later he insisted that "nudity was never a big thing in my movies. When my characters took off their clothes, you wanted them to put them back on.

The measure of their personal greatness is less what they found at journey's end and more the depth of human character that carried them along the way: their imagination, will, perseverance, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to bear the risk of failure.