Quotes About Character

There are no losers in the world of honorable men.

You may not be known or popular all over the world, but by doing honorable acts and decent gestures each day you are already famous.

Do what is right. Uphold what is right. Recite your prayer every night. Handle everything with care. Acknowledge everybody's help. Make good memories of yourself to everybody.

The privilege of portraying any role in life is not in the packaging or editing of the character, but in the acceptance of a responsibility that defines the role.

I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.

Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

You can put a pig in a palace and that doesn't make him a prince! You can put a prince in a pig pen and he wont't become a pig.

What you think about me says more about you than it does about me.

Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.

Any pipsqueak can roar like a lion on paper, because grand words cost little, whereas delicacy—the delicacy of Chopin for example, persevering to the extreme, tense, elaborate—requires effort and character. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,

la novela tiene que ser la fotografía que estereotipe los vicios y las virtudes de un pueblo,

A woman has the age she deserves.

As a leader, you obtain a sense of the better soldiers during training. They have a quiet confidence about them and a swagger that sets them apart.

If you are a leader, you lead the way, not just in the easy ones, but on the tough ones, too. The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.

Because Chamberlain, Moore, and Winters were leaders of character first, competence second, and courage third.

Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.

Soyez sûrs qu'une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s'écrie 'elle est en acier !' Elle est 'en femme', simplement, et cela suffit

These leisurely conversations always revealed their worship of the same twin deities - love and money, and would drift away from money and love to come back to Chéri and his deplorable upbringing, to his exceptional good looks ("harmless, after all," as Léa would say) and to his character ("virtually non-existent," as Léa would say). They had a taste for sharing confidences, and a dislike of new words or ideas, which they satisfied in these long talks.

How much of us is what we do?

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife

even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?