Quotes About Character

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Beautiful, funny, smart, sexual, and also neurotic? It's like filling an inside straight.

There are two kinds of people in this world, good and bad. The good people sleep better, but the bad people tend to have more fun during the waking hours.

O mundo divide-se em pessoas boas e pessoas más. As pessoas boas têm um sono tranquilo. As pessoas más divertem-se muito mais.

When asked if Mia Farrow's character Hanna in Hannah and her sisters was a good sister or bad sister) SB: And now , in retrospect, have you made up your mind yet? WA: Well, in retrospect, I think she's not so nice. If you look closely, she's not as nice as you imagine.

and I remember being a little drunk and viewing the Place de la Concorde lit up at night and it was so beautiful, and I shook my fist at Paris like a character in Balzac and said wistfully, "You old whore.

So what character in fiction do you most identify with?" she pressed him. Finally, he said, "Gregor Samsa." "My god, you kill me." She laughed.

Each person reveals himself by what he says and does, by the way he dresses, by the way he responds to events, by what he reads and watches, and generally by the way he lives life. By observing anyone, you can see what that person is like.

if you know yourself to be honorable, strong, brave, fair-minded, generous, clear-headed, or articulate, or to have any number of other good characteristics, that is the image you will project, and that image forms the basis for the decisions you make.

Learn to see yourself as a pleasant person, courteous and respectful, and learn to do those things that a courteous and respectful person would do.

What angers me are all those kings who are fabled for the heaps of gold in their coffers, and their freedom from trouble and pain. I have a different vision. I say that the true leader shuns luxury and ease. Once in power, he should want to work harder than ever.

the shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be: and if you observe, you will find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. 

Shamelessness, they hold, treads close on the heels of ingratitude, and thus ingratitude is the ringleader and chief instigator to every kind of baseness.

We're bound to be proud of the way our children turn out if they see nothing unseemly and hear nothing shameful. They, like us, will live in the light of all that's good, and their virtue—like ours—will be their strength.

I felt free to further unburden my heart. "What angers me are all those kings who are fabled for the heaps of gold in their coffers, and their freedom from trouble and pain. I have a different vision. I say that the true leader shuns luxury and ease. Once in power, he should want to work harder than ever.

Do you think there is anything worse for a man than that which makes him choose what is bad for him instead what is good, and persuades him to cultivate the former and disregard the latter, and compels him to behave in the opposite way to that which is adopted by disciplined people?

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.

No greatness without goodness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why I can't believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My "character" is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my "feelings" are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli.

It is surely very ironic and tragic if those who speak most loudly about the gifts of the Spirit are themselves failing to show much of the fruit of the Spirit.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry," Mark Twain