Quotes About Character

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character - if given often enough, early enough, and low enough

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

A real man will be honest no matter how painful the truth is. A coward hides behind lies and deceit.

Character is what you are when no one is looking.

Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men.

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.

People respect the money and not the person

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals.

She was a good witch and a decent person, but decent people aren't always easy to live with.

ÄŒlovÄ›k by se mÄ›l chovat tak, jak si myslí, že by se mÄ›li chovat vÅ¡ichni.

If Ivan was thought of as an evasive, irresolute and will-less man in later years, one has to suppose that his mother had broken his will.

At the beginning he saw that the gentry class to which he belonged was prolific in 'superfluous' or unnecessary men who did not pull their weight and he was later to conclude that their character, like his own, contained a continuous struggle between Hamlet's scepticism and Don Quixote's chivalrous and reckless idealism.

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say "Sum!" because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

Your successes were never due to your brains. You achieved them because you have "character.

In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe - and Jussi.

Bounteous, and holy, just, and wise, Alone most fair to all men's eyes? Devoid of envy, firm, and sage

Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all.

In the old days conscience was very important. If someone tried living without one, it was obvious right away, everyone lived an open life then. There were all kinds of people then, too. Some would have been happy to follow their conscience, but what do you do if you're born without one? You can't buy it with money.

In the old days, you could see it: whether a person had it or not. Those who had it were conscientious, those without it were conscienceless. And now only the devil can tell, everything is mixed up in one pile. They bring it up needlessly with every word, mauling the poor thing so much it's barely alive.

One need not fear the devil, but rather the perverse tendencies in oneself!

There's a classic appeal in the outsider as the central character of fiction, because that person is in the position to be the observer. People who are very active are not as observant. They don't see as much and they don't often think as much. They're too busy doing.