Quotes About Character

Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

We ultimately don't get what we want, we get what we are.

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

Who and what you affiliate your life around will likely determine who you'll become.

.you are not him or her, you be you..

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.