Quotes About Character

I wonder whether he is the real thing, or only the bundle of eccentricities he appears."106

This would enable them to develop those noneconomic virtues—intelligence, unselfishness, courage, decency—which he loosely defined as "character." Character determined the worth of the individual, and "what is true of the individual is also true of the nation.

He was a good boy and 'projected' goodness – which later would be the downfall of many a person.

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated..., and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said.

I'm not much to look at, replied Elizabeth, but I'm beautiful inside.

But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick.

Forming impressions of the CEO's character, intelligence, energy and trustworthiness can be gleaned using a variety of questioning techniques. Intellectual honesty can be tested by asking the CEO to pick out what he or she thinks is important. To unsettle the more promotional CEOs, we like to ask what is not working and wait to see whether they have given the matter much thought.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

the fundamental maxim of Artistotle, that true virtue is placed at an equal distance between the opposite vices.

Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

The youth of Andronicus had been without spirit, his age was without reverence:

Philip was brave, but the statesman predominated in his character; he was soon weary of sacrificing his health and interest on a barren coast:

Majorian presents a welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honour of the human species.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference of age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

We may be a small island, but we are not a small people

Watch what I do –           that reflects who I am. Don't just listen to what I say, that only reflects who I want to be.

So I started trying to behave as if my defects of character were gone. I considered how I would behave if I were who I wanted to be, and I acted that way to the best of my poor acting ability. I made lots of mistakes along the way, but I began to improve with time. It was hard.

As I go through my life in recovery, steps six and seven come into play more actively than any other personally applicable spiritual principles. Open-minded willingness followed by active prayer through changed behavior are able to mold my character, but they do not change it. Change, true conversion, comes as a gift when I am humble enough to ask for it.

Doesn't private vice make a man unworthy of public office?" And now kindly Mrs. Albion looked at Mercy with genuine astonishment. "Well," she laughed, "if it did, there'd be no one to govern the land.

Hay muchas clases de mujeriegos. A unos los mueve la vanidad o un sentimiento de poder; a otros, la avidez. Luc actuada movido por un simple motivo: una insondable curiosidad.

You never expected that God himself would, by his representatives, actually come close to unclean people and touch them. The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don't limit God's character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward.

Put a dozen relatively like-minded people into the same crisis and you will see a dozen different responses. Some are heroes; others are cowards. Some are leaders; others are followers. Some are optimistic; others despair. Some shake their fist at God; others quietly submit. You don't really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave under pressure. Throughout

Hope will only grow in the ground of humility.