Quotes About Character

Lo que uno piensa y escribe cuando está solo no puede decirse que sea la verdad. La verdad es lo que uno hace en realidad, la manera en que se comporta. Las obras, no las palabras, es lo que cuenta.

the only thing that grows over time is the glory of those who have lived honourably.

Quien tiene el verdadero poder no necesita joyas ni trajes fastuosos para demostrarlo. Quien siente esta necesidad admite su propia debilidad

patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

I love chimpanzees. I love their stubbornness and their strength. I love the way they dig their fingers into life and never let it get the better of them. I love the tenderness beneath their wild tempers. I love them because they refuse to apologize for who they are.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

The only truth slander reveals is about the coward implementing it.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Essere un rivoluzionario significa prima di tutto essere una persona onestà. Di per sé una cosa semplice, eppure così difficile.

Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired.

At sixteen, he was inclined to be rather priggish and self-righteous. Not such bad qualities in adolescence after all, since most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Some of the thinking about religion makes a mistake right here. If, in our thinking, God or religion becomes like an apple, we are in charge and we do our own investigating in whatever way we please. On the other hand, if God is a person, and in fact a person infinitely greater than we, it is up to him how he chooses to meet us. Until we get to know him, we cannot say whether he makes himself known in all religions equally, or in none of them, or in one particular way that fits his character.

The intelligent person ignores what to do. He or she concentrates on what to be. We must put first things first. To be clearminded is first. Obviously, that is the only kind of mind that makes accurate and profitable decisions.

on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

My name is Four," I say. Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem.

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

You will go further, even if you may not acquire wealth, but you will be happier and well contented if you go via the straight path in life -- that is honesty and integrity.

Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

Physical beauty will fade over time, but true beauty (virtue) is timeless.

Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make. The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others.

Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.

human character is unchanging and thus its conduct in calamitous times is always predictable.