Quotes About Character

You've heard the talk; that he's a wastrel, a playboy. But he is kind and he is brave. Much braver and kinder than me. He took the Moonrun. I never did that. He saved Kojo Asamoah's life. He went back, in vacuum, to save him. Everyone forgets that about him. The Asamoahs didn't.

A bicycle is a friend in a way that an automobile can never be. A car can be a lover: sophisticated, complex, temperamental, but one wrong step and the affair is over. The bicycle is simple, undemanding, faithful, but as with any friendship, you must work at it, maintain it, repair it where necessary, spend time with it, get to know its character.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions

The shelves were bowed under the weight of textbooks. There were old framed prints on the walls, and a blackboard with the single word CHARACTER on it. University paperwork was piled on the window ledge, all but blacking out the bottom two panes. The smell in the room was that of intellect gone awry.

Rebus lifted a Guardian

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him (John Rebus): I drink at his bar and I like to be one on one with my music late at night.

Ipseity is essentially just another way to say selfhood or individuality

That was the tribute written to twenty-year-old Chester W. Nimitz by the editors of the Lucky Bag, the Naval Academy yearbook of 1905. The quote, from Wordsworth's Excursion, was apt: it got at Nimitz's qualities of serenity, humility, and good-fellowship. He had a pleasant face and an easy manner. He was comfortable in his own skin. He was one of those rare souls who managed to be both supremely confident and genuinely modest.

Quite possibly one of the most revealing passages about Shakespeare as a man comes from one of the roughest of the jottings made by gossip John Aubrey from his interview with William Beeston, son of the Christopher Beeston who had acted with Shakespeare's company. The partly cancelled note reads: 'the more to be admired, he was not a company keeper. [He] ... wouldn't be debauched, and if invited to, writ [i.e. wrote] he was in pain.' [Ch.24]

Man is a child of the customs and the things he has become used to. He is not the product of his natural disposition and temperament. The conditions to which he has become accustomed, until they have become for him a quality of character and matters of habit and custom, have replaced his natural disposition.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature—a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. Winwood Reade (1872)

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

how much he'd changed—his whole demeanor and mentality, outwardly and inwardly. He was clean-cut. Wearing glasses. Carrying himself with dignity, like a real man should.

To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity