Quotes About Character

People were always asking him who the real Donald Trump was—was the bombastic, boastful billionaire he played in the media merely a character designed to enhance his business? They didn't get it, he insisted. He was exactly what he presented to the public: a man of business, in it for himself, in it to win. He

A prelude is more freeform than a regular game session, skipping around to cover the important points in the characters' background, defining moments that help shape who the character is and will be. The player gets a chance to test out certain traits to see if the character is capable of what the players wants him or her to be able to do.

All the talent in the world can't make up for attitude," he said. "But attitude go a long way in making up for talent.

To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1

There was no such thing as situational integrity.

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." ? John Wooden Quote

it is what you are striving for which is important, not how you appear.

I am just a low, uncouth person. I'm a low-type sort of man." Some

A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you're not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

Before he can DECIDE to do good, his parents must CONDITION him to do good.

Why did you come to the frontier? [...] To track down a common thief? To revel in a moment's revenge? I thought there was more to you than that." Still Glass said nothing. Finally Kiowa said, "If you want to die in the guardhouse, that's for you to decide.

Wealth lost, something lost; Honor lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost. German proverb

Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost.

She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now

At the end of this lifetime, all the "stuff" you accrue is not going to make you happy. At the end of your life, all you're going to have is who you've become as an individual, and that is what matters the most. What are you leaving behind for the next generation to build upon? Did you set up your family? Did you accomplish everything you wanted during your journey? And did it make you happy? But

He'd met Dee briefly and didn't like him; he was one of those arrogant European immortals who thought they were better than anyone else, just because they were older than the United States.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

In an aptly titled article 'Two Rights Don't Make Up for a Wrong', the authors found that 'the overall goodness of a person is determined mostly by his worst bad deed.'35 Decades of devoted work for public causes can be obliterated in an instant with an extramarital affair, financial scandal or criminal act.

Be, who you be.

I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But can someone follow the rules and still be a real jerk? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.

mission is not primarily about going. Nor is mission primarily about doing anything. Mission is about being.

There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why

Trump lived, like Hulk Hogan, as a real-life fictional character.