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Quotes About Character

He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?
~ Megan Whalen Turner
while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who we are.
~ Meghan Daum
A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at the top of a mountain!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who is neither afraid of the wolves nor hurts the lambs, He is called a great man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
High positions are full of low people!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan