Quotes About Character

Viel Leisten - wenig hervortreten - mehr sein als scheinen." Alfred Graf von Schlieffen, Generalfeldmarschall, (* 28. Februar 1833 in Berlin; † 4. Januar 1913 ebenda)

it is more properly understood as a masking of the self that is a constructed identity, a character. When the ego is too dominant, it prevents people from knowing their true identity and, as a result, interferes with an individual's ability to make informed and clear distinctions between authentic reality and contrived reality, and to act accordingly.

When the ego does not seem to live up to the beliefs, ideas, and judgments that are imposed from its context, internal conflict arises, and this creates a new layer of masking and character formation

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.' How many times had she said that to people?

beauty could be a scourge, and to remember that looks faded eventually, but the beauty inside her was for ever. She had liked hearing that. It had the ring of truth to it.

a woman who had the face of an angel and the personality of a Doberman pinscher,

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are." Never was a truer word said!

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature.

all you had at the end of the day was your name, and that made it the more important because it was something you either respected or you were ashamed of. Your name was all you had, the only thing that you couldn't ever deny.

Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.

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Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.

Honesty is basic. It is true that lying is an accomplice to every other form of vice. Or, as someone has said, 'Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.' (O. W. Holmes, in The Home Book of Quotations, p. 1111.)

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

Work was created to put the nature and character of God on display.

The fact is, "wise girls get more" of what really matters for this life and the next!

The reason the Lord holds you to the fire is not to punish you, but to reveal the splendor of Christ through your life. It's not so that you might earn God's favor; it's because you've already received God's favor.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

The rule is simple: People with integrity are predisposed to perform; people without integrity are predisposed not to perform. It is best not to get the two confused.