Quotes About Character

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor's capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

As theologian N. T. Wright points out, trees behave as trees, rocks as rocks and the seas as the seas, but "Only humans, it seems, have the capacity to live as something other than what they are.

Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.

It's his father's fault," she said unemotionally. "The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn't drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

If he wears a tag, doesn't that make him harmless? It sounds rather sweet, like a kitten with a bell around its neck. A dissolute character without a tag is what frightens me.

For some reason, filters on cigarettes seem dirty to me. If you were going to smoke, then it had to be unfiltered. Smoking those Shikishimas throws a person's whole character into question.

Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. (...) Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza.

He's all right. Naoji's all right. Scoundrels like Naoji simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people.

Güçlü kuvvetli olmak istiyordum, kaba saba de?il.

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.

A name with a catchy story attached makes you less of a business, and more of a character in a story.

Be a likeable and relatable voice of reason.

Define a clear direction for your brand by setting its vision, values and personality.

Don't vote for someone just because they're a part of a certain party. There have been many great leaders from the main parties, and their greatness has been based on their abilities/skills, their knowledge, their experience and their intellectual prowess. Don't let their title or party membership sway you. Look for someone who is capable, competent and responsible, who is willing to put people before power.

The best clay to shape your life is your character not the the talent.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.