Quotes About Character

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I've known a lot of political figures but never another one whose self-control seemed so fragile.

I don't make decisions based on money.

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

Would you rather have people be helpful or not? It turns out that having little nice things happen to them is a much better way of making them helpful than spending a huge amount of energy on improving their characters."5

This guy's all ego. BUT I'M ALL ID." -Poseidon

In order to build a good reputation, you have to view your own actions in the same way that the people judging you will view them.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

What was once an open space between law and freedom, one governed by character and truth, is now deserted, so law must now do what character has abandoned.

Sanctification is about living in ways that are consistent with what we already are in Christ.

It is difficulties that reveal a person's character,

The presence of anger does not mean the absence of love—particularly in God. Love is God's character, not simply an emotion. What a small god we would have if divine character was dependent on our behavior. The Christian God is not like this. The Christian God is slow to anger and rich in mercy (see Exodus 34:6, echoed in Joel 2:13 and many other places in Scripture).

The Father's love reflects the Father's character, not the children's behavior. My behavior—whether responsible or irresponsible—is beside the point. Responsible behavior does not increase the Father's love, nor does irresponsible behavior decrease it.

The Father's love reflects the Father's character, not the children's behavior.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

This is not a quote by me, but one of my favorites: "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.

There's nothing fragile about this one. That ain't a fragile nose or mouth or chin, and yet it's female, more female than them fragile-pretty types who look more like ornaments than girls.

A legacy of true value is a legacy made of more than money. It's a legacy conceived in wisdom, nurtured by principle, and sustained by character.

benefits of hardship.

6 Most people announce that they show kindness, but who can find someone faithful [enough to do it]?

Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it, as if these historical impulses were more a part of them than they knew.

He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.

It is only the expression of equivalence between different sorts of commodities which brings to view the specific character of value-creating labour, by actually reducing the different kinds of labour embedded in the different kinds of commodity to their common quality of being human labour in general. (142)