Quotes About Character

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Henry James in "The Lesson of Balzac" praised his precursor for giving his characters "the long rope," for acting themselves out. That grant of freedom to his created life was for James crucial to Balzac's success in representation of persons in the world. James saw Balzac's creation of character as ultimately motivated by love: "The love, as we call it, the joy in their communicated and exhibited

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

I believe that God is more interested in the who. And that means walking the walk, not just talking the talk. Better: it means walking the walk when no words are left. That is trust.

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

experience with parents as pivotal in shaping an individual's values, beliefs, character, and, naturally, dysfunctions in adaptation.

Do not become what you dispise.

Do not become what you despise.

2. El drama pone en marcha su historia

There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.

Das ist eine der anstrengenderen Seiten von Moritz, die er mit dem Alter entwickelt hat - die Mischung aus Perfidie und Sentimentalität.

He would turn out fine, too. Most of them were that way. They were tough and sweet and funny and sad, and people like that would always survive. It wasn't necessarily gold, but perhaps because of that it would stay.

Satan's extortion is powerless without the addiction to a good public name.

Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.

So Potiphar left all that he owned in Josephís care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his masterís wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Although Potipharís wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

One day, however, Joseph went into the house to attend to his work, and not a single household servant was inside.

Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,