Quotes About Character

On or about December, 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

Karma in its effect on character is the most tremendous power that man has to deal with. Man is, as it were, a centre, and is attracting all the powers of the universe towards himself, and in this centre is fusing them all and again sending them off in a big current. Such a centre is the real man — the almighty, the omniscient — and he draws the

No man to be judged by mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them.

it is the narrator who is the "agent": he himself is the unifying idea. Not through what he tells us about himself or even through what he sees as he travels, but through the way he sees what he sees. It is the character of the persona's perspective that provides the narrative its striking inner life.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character's predicament, but never to solve his problems.

Each generation of Americans has to face circumstances not of its own choosing, by which its character is measured and its spirit is tested. —President Jimmy Carter

Do Not Listen to What They Say, Look at What They Do

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

It's a shame that Nature made you only one man; there was material enough for a worthy man and a rogue.

Why that's a colossal fib. I'm a very kind person. I've never hurt man, beast or child. Except when I had to. I belong to the Bare-Hand-Wolf-Choker Association.

The development of good character is a battle that you, I, and everyone must fight for himself. But victory can be ours.

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

As you read this chapter, you saw it clearly: To develop good character, work. To have good health, work. To win over yourself, work. To do the right thing because it is right, work. To rise from rags to riches, work. To fight your way back, work. To acquire knowledge, work. To acquire know-how, work.

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.