Quotes About Character

Nonetheless, character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

Sacramento was the least typical of the Valley towns, and it is—but only because it is bigger and more diverse, only because it has had the rivers and the legislature; its true character remains the Valley character, its virtues the Valley virtues, its sadness the Valley sadness.

But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity

Or was she going to be sensible, reliable, patient Elinor who never put her own feelings first because -- let's face it -- she didn't have any worth considering in the first place, did she?

The Bishop was capable of anger, but he was not capable of hate.

She marched to the door and said, if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book.

I can be nice on occasion, Mike said.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

A devil doesn't act through evil, but through weakness...

Desta vez, disse ele, vais para a Europa; vais cursar uma Universidade, provavelmente Coimbra; quero-te para homem sério e não para arruador e gatuno.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.

Peter loves to make promises. He has the best intentions of keeping them. It makes it worse, somehow, that he doesn't know how to. He thinks he's a nice boy, that's the worst part.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them.

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to, Josef says. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Hard work make us strong and behaviour makes us unique.

Hard work make us strong behaviour and intentions makes us unique.

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.