Quotes About Character

I feel a certain kinship with them. They don't compromise and they're not easy to know." -Owen d'Arcy

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

As water given sugar sweetens, given salt grows salty, we become our choices.

His features, like those of his cousin Norvin Norwood, were aquiline rather than handsome, but unlike Norvin, whose grey eyes seemed to hold something of a raptor's fierceness, Jared's similar visage was mild.

It was enough that slander could ruin a woman, because her purity was the most important thing about her.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

There are qualities to richness we all have to develop on our own. Money cannot buy a man a pleasant sense of humor, money will not make a man behave decently, and money cannot teach a man how to treat others with dignity.

The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them.

Do not lose sight of your goal. It's not the memorization itself that is important but the constant reflection on God, His character and His ways.

You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become.

Take Landon McKellips. He always plays the part of a womanizing playboy, but for all I know, he's completely different from that in real life.' 'No,' Slade said. 'He's actually like that.

We leave an imprint on others with our attitude," Megan said. "Good or bad. A little bit of us rubs off on them. So when you react with an attitude to something— good or bad—it's like you're creating a …" She paused and appeared to be thinking about what to say. "Like a fossil on the heart, if that makes any sense.

The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.

The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

Adversity is the foundation of virtue

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

even a child is known by his actions

I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.

don't judge a man by the color of his skin,but by his actinos

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.

Even as you seek a virtuous, fair, and good spouse,... it is fitting that you should be the same. —Saint Bernardino of Siena