Quotes About Character

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

The society we live in has always taught us to believe that a woman of substance is one who has great virtues and moral values.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn't necessarily made all the right choices.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.