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Quotes About Character

Let us so absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeats—that we do the right thing intuitively.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
If you hold a real weapon in your hand, you will feel its character strongly. It begs to be used. It is fearsome. Its only purpose is death, and its power is not just in the material from which it is made but also from the intention of its makers.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
What facets of your personality are encumbrances? What personal aspects prevent you from being independent? These are the areas that will define your self-cultivation, for you must strive to stand alone.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
it is only depth of character that determines the profundity with which we face life. We can either add to our character each day, or we can fritter away our energies in distractions.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
It is only the depth of character that determines the profundity with which we face life. We can either add to our character each day or we can fritter away our energies in distractions. Those who learn how to accumulate character each day achieve a depth that cannot be successfully opposed.
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Kart? mokydamas, kaip tapyti lotos? mano tapybos mokytojas ponas Vu aiškino: Ši graži g?l? auga iš nešvarum?. Mes sakome: "išaug?s iš purvo, bet nesusitep?s", taip ir kai kurie žmon?s gyvena blogio apsuptyje, bet išlieka dori.
~ Unknown
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
~ Minna Antrim
If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?
~ Miranda Lambert
Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.
~ Miranda Lambert
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
~ Miranda Otto
Wealthy is he who is rich in his nobles. Speak truth in your house.
~ Unknown
None light of heart is weighty in conduct.
~ Unknown
As a man's name is not made small by his actions.
~ Unknown
No hasty man attains excellence, No impatient man is leaned upon.
~ Unknown
sve za obraz, a obraz ni za što! Glavu daj, a obraza ne daj!
~ Miroslav Krleža
Dajte nam tisu?u ljudi, tisu?u karaktera!
~ Miroslav Krleža
To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels
~ Miroslav Volf
Slowly and imperceptibly, the one true God begins acquiring the features of the gods of this world. For instance, our God simply gratifies our desires rather than reshaping them in accordance with the beauty of God's own character. Our God then kills enemies rather than dying on their behalf as God did in Jesus Christ.
~ Miroslav Volf
You have crossed a line, but it does not change who you are. Don't forget that. A man may be dressed up in all manner of fancy titles, but he must not let it change him or else ego, pride and ambition will be his undoing. No matter what grand title is bestowed upon you, to thine own self be true. Do you understand?
~ Unknown
Think of good things & become something good.
~ Unknown
Don't begin to tell me how much you can judge a man by his faults
~ Unknown
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?
~ Mitt Romney
Nobue confundía las cosas: la inteligencia no podía medirse por las notas que uno consiguiera en la escuela. Que una persona sacara buenas notas no lo describía como un ser humano decente.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.
~ Mo Rocca