Quotes About Character

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Money buys everything, if there is no dignity.

The rich is not fit to rule, unless he is also rich in soul, in wisdom.

Auténtico es quien se comporta con humanidad. Quien se maneja solo a partir de los instintos acaba asemejándose a una bestia, que carece de corazón.

She sighed again, wondering how she'd be described as a character in one of her much-loved romance books.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character.

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

How you react doesn't tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?

Horror is a situation, not a character, no matter how evil one may be.

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.