Quotes About Character

That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.

But it is my believed that one gets back what he puts out. The only way to truly earn regard is to conduct oneself with the utmost honor and respect.

You have a beauty of a sort," he said. "But more important than that, you have enough manly strength in you to match me.

Yet will you love a woman, if she prizes truth over softness?

why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?

Dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey, sahte kahramanlar?n ünlerinden daha kal?c? deÄŸildir.

Truly tough guys never say they're tough.

Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

To do...what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that...make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are.

I think dogs were put in this world to remind humanity that love, loyalty, devotion, courage, patience, and good humor are the qualities that, with honesty, are the essence of admirable character and the very definition of a life well lived.

A truly nice smile combined with self-control can take a person a long way.

Because when you're doing it, then it's just something you do. But if you talk about it, then it's something you are

What good is genius without humility? What value does it have if it isn't married undivorceable to kindness and empathy?

Eventually, the storm blew itself out, because it is in the character of these strange times that any outrage, regardless of its unprecedented dimensions and horror, is inevitably followed by another outrage more novel and more shocking still.

You're probably just like my dad. You have this kind of pride. Honor, he called it. But these days, honor is for suckers, and that makes you angry.

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

Joel was an odd little man: five feet four, slightly chubby but not fat

In times as turbulent as these, but also in the seeming humdrum of daily life, which always proved to be more meaningful and consequential in retrospect, each of us needed to rely on people of constant character and truths that were immutable.

Woody said, "No. His name is Kipp.

Opinionated. Conceited. He is not good company

If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a supporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter three or in chapter ten, or in chapter thirty-five. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.

PEOPLE ARE LIKE TEA BAGS—YOU HAVE TO DROP THEM IN HOT WATER BEFORE YOU KNOW HOW STRONG THEY ARE.

December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does.