Quotes About Character

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

DISC is based on concepts created in 1928 by a psychologist named William Marston, who also created the comic book character Wonder Woman. That tells you pretty much all you ned to know about DISC.

I guess there's good and bad in everyone and tragedy can amplify either.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

She drew the main outline, keeping her fingers on the ferrule—the metal piece that clamped the bristles to the handle—and created a nose, mouth, and eyelids. For a moment, she wondered what color his eyes might be, then shoved aside the macabre thought. He had a strong, square jaw, his hair pushed back, looking sticky from the dirt that had been thrown directly onto his face.

I've just become a character, we all have, in a story we don't get to write ourselves.

That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

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Morninghall was not such an evil man after all. A baffling one, yes. A potentially violent one, yes. An arrogant, intimidating, enigmatic, moody one, yes. But not evil. No man who took pity on a suffering child was evil.

The story always starts with the character. In a way, there's no decision. If there's no character there's no story.

Sometimes to be the bigger person, you gotta be the little guy.

Leadership is not about doing what's popular, it is about doing what's right

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.

How does a cranky, demanding coach create the most cohesive team in all of sports? One common answer is that the Spurs are smart about drafting and developing unselfish, hardworking, team-oriented individuals. This is a tempting explanation, because the Spurs clearly make a concerted effort to select high-character individuals. (Their scouting template includes a check box labeled "Not a Spur." A check in this box means the player will not be pursued, no matter how talented he is.)

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then 'right' for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

framing regret as a judgment of our underlying character—who we are—can be destructive.

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road.

I may be capable of evil, son, but that doesn't mean I am.

Booker T. Washington wrote that "character, not circumstances", makes the person. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." While character makes for a good story or poem, in reality we are less shaped by character traits than we think, and more than we realize by the circumstances that life deals us - and our responses to those circumstances.