Quotes About Character

An Asshole Saint," said Stephen. "Not the first. I think most were, weren't they? In fact, she wouldn't even be the first around here.

It's too easy to feed the anger. Too cowardly to stoke the hate. You must look inside yourself and decide who you are and who you want to be. Character is not created in times like these. It's revealed. This is a trying time. A testing time. Be careful.

A barometer of a moral deficit.

And good men are very threatening to not good men.

understand your doubts. They're what make you a great man, not your certainties.

One was grey, the other black. The gray one wanted his grandfather to be corageous, and patient, and kind. The other, the black one, wanted his grandfather to be fearful and cruel. this upset the boy and he thought aboutit for a few days the returned to his grandfather. He asked, "Grandfather, which of the wolves will win?" ... "The one I feed

It's possible to have a leader you wouldn't choose as a friend. But you need to at least respect them.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that.

Clara was that rare combination: she was sensible and sensitive.

Anyone could be clever. Anyone could be smart. Anyone could be taught. But not everyone was kind.

Ruth's FINE? Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical?

No man is as bad as the worst thing he's done.

No man is as bad as the worst thing he's done." "Why would he quote a death-row nun?" asked Joan.

As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.

She has a Billy goat brain and a mockingbird mouth!

I write from emotion. It's important to remember that even though one may be writing about something totally out of one's experience, one should insert a thread of familiar emotion through it. I often start out with the main character's state of mind in my stories because it sets the tone to the whole book.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer

But we don't always go to church" -Emily "Caring about people doesn't just take place there. It's how you act out in the world, when no one is looking, where it really counts" -Dad

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.