Quotes About Character

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Speaking through one of his characters in the novel Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco makes the following alltoo-true observation: "For him, everything proves everything else. The Lunatic is all idée fixé, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.

A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

Popularity is best estimated by its quality and character; it is far better to conquer than to court it; to be indifferent to it than to be concerned about it.

Meekness is the chief grace and perfection of the soul.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

She is so good a person, that - that - in short, I wish I was a better.

With virtues equall'd by her wit alone

no pierdas tiempo, hijo mio, en formar tu gusto, tus modales, tu mente y todo lo que has de tener; pues lo que, hasta cierto punto, seas a los veinte anos, eso, con poca diferencia, seras todo el resto de tu vida

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.