Quotes About Character

taught that people are not to 'be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Your importance is not in a title, it is in the excellence of your actions.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

I had to ask. "Do you really think everything I write down is about you?" Thomas said, "Well, this next bit had better be. I insist." It is very bad for Thomas's character when he gets his own way all the time. That's why I'm going to omit the next bit. If he has forgotten it in fifty years or so, too bad for him. I won't have.

You yourself, I seem to remember, have a way of soaking up scandal broth even as you seem to have a mind for higher and nobler things. Stir yourself.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

The central character is an incomplete package of yearning that takes the length of the novel to complete. Completion, though, is not to be confused with perfection.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

Travis would always be a nice man with a shallow character. On the other hand, Cade's character was as deep and dangerous as a river's currents. She

Our characters are forged in fires we didn't build.

What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten.

You've got a deep core of sweetness that's quite incorruptible.

Tipsy actress Vera Charles (who had 'more changes of costume than facial expression,' according to one critic to whom she never spoke again) ...

First of all, one is either a panicker or one isn't, and the occasion of being lost is no time to start fretting about a flaw in one's character. My own theory holds that it is best, if one is a panicker, to get the panic out of the system as quickly as possible

Lo que pasa con la sombra es que, a pesar de que se extrae de la percepción consciente, todavía existe. De hecho, puede darse a conocer de maneras más sutiles, manifestándose en comportamientos, pensamientos y sentimientos, o apareciendo en sueños o momentos de descuido. Si somos capaces de observar y comprender estos signos externos en los demás, podemos obtener una visión profunda de su carácter.

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

When your circumstances fail but your character succeeds, you become a model of hope for others.

We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.

God is more interested in the success of our character than the success of our circumstances.

We live in a profoundly religious country, and we are a prosperous people. But we are also a broken people—a people who have pursued the God of our own imaginations, believing we can re-create His character to suit our own practical problems. The result? We are the most religious nation in the world, but, like the Laodiceans, many are lukewarm.

We are the choices we make.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.