Quotes About Character

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.