Quotes About Character

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.

The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man!

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

But a child who learns things like this at the age of four will be a better person when he or she reaches the age of six, and you cannot underestimate a chance like that.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctified our works.

l'altezza dei monti non si misura con gli strumenti dei cartografi, come il valore delle persone non da ciò che fanno o sembrano, ma da ciò che sono.

I think I'd rather be beautiful. Beautiful makes evolving into any sort of a person with morals and character very difficult.

You don't make a female character strong by playing her opposite a buffoon. You just make her strong . .

Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.

I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were grand.

For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is—that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues.

What is it with that argument? Why is it that you have to jump through hoops of fire to find out that someone's decent? The fact that someone is a bitch on the surface says heaps about them.

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.

The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

This one hear will never be easy, because he's never learned to be false.

Apparently, he was too bust living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.