Quotes About Character

Sometimes one can judge an organization by the people who belong to it, and I knew that I would be proud to belong to any organization in which Walter was a member.

Rogelio has a feminine side," Anna countered. "From what you've told me, Rogelio has a weak side. Not at all the same.

A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

One cannot be kind in any meaningful way over any length of time without also being good.

There is no coal of character so dead that it will not glow and flame if but slightly turned. Don't blame; only resolve. Life, like music, can by a new setting turn all its discords into harmonies.

por la intensidad del amor y el odio, nos convertimos en lo que contemplamos

Nothing befalls man that is not the nature of himself. People emerge out of the mass betraying their close affinity to your moods as they are engendered. You meet them seemingly by accident but find they are intimates of your moods. Because your moods continually externalise themselves you could prophesy from your moods, that you, without search, would soon meet certain characters and encounter certain conditions.

Faith in oneself, which asks no man's help but quietly and alone appropriates the consciousness of the quality desired and—in spite of reason or the evidence of his senses to the contrary—continues faithful—patiently waiting in the knowledge that his unseen claim if sustained must be realised—such faith develops a courage and strength of character that are beyond the wildest dreams of the undisciplined man whose faith is in things unseen.

The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they're trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it's this long-term perspective that builds character, wisdom, and self-discipline. Long-term thinking is the hallmark of high-performance living, yet it's often neglected in favor of the treadmill of urgent activities of the moment.

Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.

Life offers all of us a special deal indefinitely. With every choice, we receive at least one free consequence. Everything you do or fail to do counts. Every action has a consequence, even if it isn't immediate. At this moment, you are either becoming more like the person God wants you to become, or you are not! There is no neutrality.

Widely known as the best horseman in the colonies, Washington was so strong he could break a walnut between his thumb and first finger. Washington

Goodness provokes bitchiness. It's mathematical. It's somewhere in the human genes. Any number of lovely poeple are married to horrible ones. Read Middlemarch (Book 989, George Eliot, Penguin Classics, London) if you don't believe me. There's something in me that just can't let it be. Goodness is a tidy bow you just can't help wanting to pull loose.

hardship had been part of history for so long it had become a condition of life. There was no expectation things could, or would, be otherwise. You got on with it, and through faith, family and character accommodated as best you could whatever suffering and misfortune was yours.

Some people always look respectable, I thought, and some people never do. Give Doll a bath, a haircut, a shave, a manicure, dress him in a thousand-pound suit, and he'd still look unwashed and somehow unsavoury. You couldn't clean off his past.

It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.

Quelle che tu chiami figure di merda sono sprazzi di splendore mediatico che danno lustro al personaggio e che ti rendono più umano e simpatico. Se non esistono più regole etiche ed estetiche le figure di merda decadono di conseguenza.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

thos anthrp?i daím?n Character for man is fate. Heraclitus

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. GEORGE ELIOT, 1819—80

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?