Quotes About Character

In so many people there are different strata which are not alike (there were in her her father's character, and her mother's); we traverse first one, then the other. But, next day, their order is reversed. And finally we do not know who is going to allot the parts, to whom we are to appeal for a hearing. Gilberte was like one of those countries with which we dare not form an alliance because of their too frequent changes of government.

There is no science for the teguments of a leaf, for the filaments of a cell structure, the winding of a vein, the passion of a habit, or for the twists and quirks of character.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

There is most joy in virtue when 'tis hardest won.

ìNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.

Waste no time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Authentic Christian leaders boast in weakness, not strength.

If you spend time around people who are weak or always feel sorry for themselves, it's bound to rub off on you.

You don't get people to follow you by demanding it with your words. You do it by commanding it with your example.

made it my business to be tough in the ways that they were tough—on the inside, where it counted. The

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.