Quotes About Character

Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

In politics as in life, nothing is really hidden, only ignored. A candidate's character is transparent.

being a good dragon is about the choices you make no matter where you are or who raised you or how.

But Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow. She

Besides, Clay knew Starflight, and Starflight was many things — annoying, long-winded, smart, too serious — but he had no magical powers and he was never, ever scary.

He probably should have predicted that Winter would be a stubborn donkey for no reason.

But Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow.

They all turned and found a NightWing dragonet standing there, staring at Turtle, with his face contorted in terror.

Scarlet was murderous and insane. Not exactly the role model I want to follow.

I think being humble is sexy.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

There has been a precipitous decline in the character of our people. We are not the people our parents were. We are not even the people we used to be.

Leaders who can identify, hire, and cultivate employees who are humble, hungry, and smart will have a serious advantage over those who cannot.

The fundamental attribution error is simply this: human beings tend to falsely attribute the negative behaviors of others to their character (an internal attribution), while they attribute their own negative behaviors to their environment (an external attribution).

humble self- confidence.

All employees who had been with Telegraph for more than a few months knew that no matter how impressive their background or skills might have been, they had made it into the firm because they were found to be humble, hungry, and smart.

humility is the single greatest and most indispensable attribute of being a team player.

She's a tall skinny old girl in a tweed jacket and brown corduroy trousers, long restless hands stained yellow, rings on every finger. Hair tied up in a bandanna and clear, fierce blue eyes like mine. You'd know us anywhere as brother and sister, lanky, beaky customers with these piercing eyes and silver hair.

for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.

You will not be afraid of all those rough men?' asked Sophie, when Clarissa came down. 'No. As far as I have seen, apart from mere brute strength they are no more formidable than we are. Less so, indeed, since most have that dog-does-not-bite-bitch rule deeply engrained, while nothing of that kind applies to us.

He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: examples presented themselves to his mind, not only of mental decay, physical weakness, gout, stone and rheumatism, but of boastful mendacious garrulity, intense and peevish selfishness; timidity if not cowardice, dirt, concupiscence, avarice.

Identity?' said Jack, comfortably pouring out more coffee. 'Is not identity something you are born with?' 'The identity I am thinking of is something that hovers between a man and the rest of the world: a mid-point between his view of himself and theirs of him – for each, of course, affects the other continually.