Quotes About Character

We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Every man is the son of his own works.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

No better than she should be.

A good name is better than riches.

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

He preaches well that lives well.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Y a las veces su carácter será el de no tenerlo

Rol yapmak hepimizin hoÅŸuna gider küçük bey, hiç kimse kendisi deÄŸildir, baÅŸkalar?n?n yarat?lar?d?r.

Não esperes nunca de mim que eu seja fiel a qualidades que não tenho. O que podes contar é com as que tenho, porque nessas não te falharei nunca.

Stern endorses Pascal's maxim "To understand is to forgive." In fact, one of the most exciting opportunities in being a writer, he feels, is to take a villain or criminal character and make him human by showing what caused him to be so.