Quotes About Character

He's a good Joe.

It's okay to be the teacup with a chip in it. That's the one with a story.

You get up. You put on your clothes. And then you put on your personality. Choose wisely.

And every era is clogged with Martins, and they are all dickheads.

But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

We're all total bastards, us humans, but also totally wonderful.

The things that make you unique are flaws. Imperfections. Embrace them. Don't seek to filter out your human nature.

Of everyone I have ever met, I would say Agnes was the most difficult to put into words. She was an extremely rare concoction of forthright character, amoral habits and restrained manners.

we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.

The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-tohuman connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

We are shaped more by our failures than our successes (paraphrase)

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole.

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. (...) the good stuff makes it worthwhile.

Just as person's likes, dislikes, and fears are relevant to creating an interesting character for characters to interact with, changelings can tell a lot about someone by interacting with their dreams. Thus, the Storyteller is advised to jot down a few quick ideas about the nature of a characters dreams.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

Moral strengths cannot be governed. They must be earned.

Folk who cannot say sorry have no ethics.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Be neither saint- nor sophist-led, but be a man!

Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.

The character of President Ronald Reagan may have affected Kristol's rosy assessment of populism. The fortieth president injected the populist rebellion of the late 1970s with his peculiar qualities of optimism, sunniness, humor, and unflappability.