Quotes About Character

It's hard when you lose someone. I've had it happen. It changes your world, everything, but it doesn't change who you are. People who are heroes are still heroes. They may get more heroic. People who are the opposite—well, watch out.

Surface beauty, blond hair, blue eyes is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's hard to see.

He's not that hot. And hotness only goes so far. After you've known someone a while, you stop looking, I think. Character is more important.

I think the message of goodness over beauty is a valuable one. I wish the world knew it.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Maggie felt sorry for her, a woman surrounded by beautiful expensive things, all of them by authentic designers, genuine gold-trims, the best-quality fabrics and woods, rare collector accessories of porcelain and ceramic—nothing artificial except her personality. Maggie

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, what you do—is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is the light that guides your way. —HERACLITUS

Talking with Moraveji is the closest I've come to interacting with a character from the science-fiction show Lost: He has the appropriately exotic biography, personality, and good looks to be a passenger on Oceanic 815 and the technical skills to be part of the shadowy Dharma project.

The apostolic character, in short, must combine freedom of conscience, enlargement of heart, enlightenment of mind, and all in the superlative degree.

The infant church, in its original nomadic or itinerant state, seems to have been a motley band of pilgrims, in which all sorts of people as to sex, social position, and moral character were united, the bond of union being ardent attachment to the person of Jesus. This church itinerant was not a regularly organized society, of which it was necessary to be a constant member in order to true discipleship.

Be this as it may, we know on the best authority that Nathanael was a man of great moral excellence. No sooner had Jesus seen him than He exclaimed, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" The words suggest the idea of one whose heart was pure; in whom was no doublemindedness, impure motive, pride, or unholy passion: a man of gentle, meditative spirit, in whose mind heaven lay reflected like the blue sky in a still lake on a calm summer day.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Real firmness is good for every thing— Strut is good for nothing.

For instance, Publius affirms that the electoral college "affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications." In fact, he speaks of "a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue," or "at least respectable" (No.

To confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is so prevalent that I…would willingly risk my life, tho' not my character, to exalt my station. I'm confident that my youth excludes me from any hopes of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it, but I mean to prepare the way for futurity… My folly makes me ashamed, yet Neddy we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant. I shall conclude saying I wish there was a war.

Regard to reputation has a less active influence when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided among a number than when it is to fall singly upon one.

A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

I do not steal victory.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has d——d few virtues. Good-day.

Many masochistic characters engage in the game of failure to cover an inner feeling of superiority.

If body structure and temperament are related, as anyone who studies human nature can determine, the question then is: Can one change the character of an individual without some change in the body structure and in its functional motility?

Seek to be the man that you are least likely to be, and aim at a comprehensive development of 'all righteousness and goodness and truth.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing