Quotes About Character

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

It is the imperfections of life that are lovable.

Menyindir biar berasas, memuji biar berisi.

The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it. Let us stop him at the top of the hill on some excuse, and have a good look at him.

King John was not a good man, He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him, For days and days and days.

But in me he saw at once a weak, yielding will. You can feel it in people at a mere glance—there's no need of words.

the tart values of New England were the essence of his character. He was full of Yankee quirks and biases. He could be crotchety in his behavior and literary taste, obtuse and old-fashioned. And yet, Brooks believed, Windsor and all it stood for had kept him at heart "so direct, so uninfluenced by prejudice, so unclouded by secondary feelings, so immediate, so fresh." Max's was a New England mind, filled with dichotomies.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.

I didn't bounce, I coughed," said Tigger crossly. "Bouncy or coffy, it's all the same at the bottom of the river.

The things that make me different are the things that make me ME!

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep silent.

Friendship is a sacred word, a holy thing; it is never developed except between persons of character, and never takes root except through mutual respect; it flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity. What makes one friend sure of another is the knowledge of his integrity: as guarantees he has his friend's fine nature, his honor, and his constancy.

Nate might be a poor dumb bastard, but at least he wasn't a dishonest, fraudulent dumb bastard, and that ought to count for something.

About what you'd expect, was Gideon's grumpy and uncharitable thought, if you crossed John Gielgud with W. C. Fields.

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. - Lt.j.g Daniel A Kaffee

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.

He's not a bad guy, deep down," I said. My dad slipped the key into the door. "Deep down, no one is. But you make choices.

We are a sum of our choices. We are not our single choices.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.