Quotes About Character

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.

Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.