Quotes About Character

A bad person is a bad person, and a bad person will never make you a good deal. The world is filled with enough good and honest people that doing business with the dishonest ones is pure foolishness.

It's how we handle those bad things that measures our worth.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Some people are too good to be real; I'm too real to be good.

The man had the intelligence of the average fence post, the personality of a wounded warthog, and the stubbornness of a flea-bitten mule. Grace silently apologized to all the animals she'd just insulted.

He'd become The Guardian, when all he really was, was a half-rabid food driven by vengeance and hate.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

I could never love where I could not respect

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. Which wolf will win, grandfather? asks the young boy. Whichever one I feed, is the reply.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.