Quotes About Character

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

The human beings I know are mostly wonderful people, but they often fail to distinguish clearly between what they worked for and the good things that came their way. They also are not so good at seeing the difference between the character flaws of other people and bad things that happen to them.

l'humble prend ses décisions selon ce qu'il estime être juste et s'y tient, sans s'inquiéter ni de son image ni du qu'en-dira-t-on.

I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters live within their desires and addictions, because most people are works in progress.

We are all always the heroes of our stories, or the villains--we never play a bit part. [Édouard Manet]

The darkest and most complex novel in (the Murdoch) series.

jealousy is a sign of a shallow mind and weak character.

On the contrary. Babies are the best judges of character.

History's tragedies reveal great men: but those tragedies are provoked by the mediocre.

We subdue that in others which we have learned to subdue in ourselves. Around the upright man there is drawn a wide circle of peace, within which the arrows of evil soon cease to fall; nor have his fellows the power to inflict moral suffering upon him.

1. Nature possesses a temporal character: it passes, like time. 2. Nature is only ever process: we only ever grasp it in its manifestations, without these manifestations ever exhausting it. 3. It is essential for Nature to pass. There is not Nature on the one hand, and its process as attribute on the other. Nature is pure process. It is comparable to the being of a wave, the reality of which is only global and not fragmentary.

Is our discipleship system producing disciples whose character reflects Christ—who are holy toward God and loving toward others, whose lives are separated from sin, dedicated to biblical pursuits, and committed to eternal reality?

The goal of discipleship—giving someone the assistance needed to be conformed into the character image of Christ—will never change, but the methodology will and must.

if a man ain't got the heart inside, it don't make no difference how big around the chest he measures.

he had said it in such a manner that they were fairly certain he would never make what he had done a subject of boasting. There

Don't you aim to work with iron. Aim to work with men. They're what need the bendin'. They're what it pays to shape. Heat 'em and temper 'em. Hammer 'em and form 'em. If you break one of 'em, here and there, it don't make no difference. Throw the pieces outside the shop. Leave

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

One of the men he worked with was Horsethief Willy. Big Boy was very fond of him. A lot of his ideas on life originated with this man who had once been accused of stealing a horse. They didn't prove the charge, but he got a nickname for life.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;

But the person who can do this must be a leader; not only that, he must, in a very simple sense of the word, be a hero.