Quotes About Character

So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person? I don't know, I admit.But I do think that some stains never wash out.

I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love—well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

Nobody's all good or all bad. They just get painted that way.

maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

It was easy to be proud of the kid who got straight A's and who made the winning basket-a kid the world already adored. But true character showed when you could find something to love in a child everyone else hated.

I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whather it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

You ought to be attracted to someone for what they've got inside them, not for the package it's presented in.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

But this isn't true. Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other. To

wanted to hear more about Thomas. I wanted to know that he had a good heart, that he had saved someone on the brink, that I could depend on him. I wanted in him all the traits any female would want in the male she chose as the father for her offspring.

There's really no such thing as a right or wrong choice. We don't make decisions. Out decisions make us.

I love that she's tough as nails one moment and soft as suede the next.

on top of a print of a turbaned man with a face as old as honesty.

Good people are good people, religion has nothing to do with it.

But my mother also would have been the first to tell me that good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

She's Full Of Spirit & Heart ~ Nina

H]is skin was the color of age and his features the shape of a saint's.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

When someone shows you who they really are, believe them.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

donde hay poca diferencia entre el cristiano y el no cristiano en lo que pensamos y creemos, pronto habrá poca diferencia en como vivimos.

God is not opposed to pride because it is something only He can possess; God is opposed to pride because pride is unlike Him.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.