Quotes About Character

There's a difference between being good and doing bad things. Sometimes, a person does something because he doesn't have a choice. He might not like what he did... but it doesn't make him bad.

The way a man handles himself in his anger may define his nobility.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Do right. Do your best.

I seemed to be the only one who noticed, the only one who was concerned that doing the right thing for the wrong reason doesn't make you a person of integrity.

God starts with who we've become, and then he works his way to how we live.

if you want to do something great for God, then get ready to be tested greatly first. You'll be tested greatly so you can be trusted greatly.

sin is deceptively strong and pride has many faces. I

Sin is a mirage, always overpromising and underdelivering. The Enemy works in your life by luring and lying. He promises things he can't fulfill. He challenges God's truth. He attacks God's character and intentions.

God's glory matters more than anything. If people don't know how great and gracious and good He is, how will they not choose something of lesser value? How will they know He's better than everything else if they don't see Him on display in someone like you?

It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer's character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I

repeated sinful deeds lead to the establishment of sinful habits.

On the whole it may be said that Scripture does not exalt one attribute of God at the expense of the others, but represents them as existing in perfect harmony in the Divine Being.

I should add that all that my teachers would later teach me of the superiority of character-driven comedy over situation comedy never managed to uproot from me every child's conviction: that those who hurl cream pies at each other's faces are funny in a far more relaxing, and, therefore, at bottom more satisfying way, than the more subtle forms of what is called "wit." In fact, it is quite remarkable that these latter forms usually grow stale in less than a generation.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Er zijn twee soorten van mensen in de wereld. De ene was van een hard en verpletterend materiaal, de andere integendeel van een doorschijnender en meer sprokkere substantie.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person.

I didn't know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.