Quotes About Character

I tried to look like someone who was busy expanding her horizons and building her character through intentional fraternization with her social inferiors. A difficult look to master in a single facial expression, but I did my best.

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not. -Beatrix Whittaker

The wise man is always similar to himself.

I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper.

To know God, you need only to renounce one thing—your sense of division from God. Otherwise, just stay as you were made, within your natural character.

His face is a comprehensive encyclopaedia of kindness.

The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth—the virtues or the malevolence.

Nothing is so essential as dignity, girls. Time will reveal who has it, and who has it not.

Nothing is so essential as dignity, girls, and time will reveal who has it

make mistakes, you must account for them. There will be instances when you must cast aside your impulses and take a higher stance than another person—a person without honor—might take. Such instances may hurt, but that's why honor is a painful field.

Man kan måle sit værd på sin loyalitet over for sine valg, ikke på sine succeser eller fiaskoer.

Of course, nobody is required to stand in the field of honor," Olive continued. "If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

It was the sad state of the world that people judged others not by the best that they could be but by the worst thought in their own hearts

Lily opened the door. "Maude, would you—" She cut herself off. Maude was nowhere in sight, but Caliban was across the room, holding a page of her play to the light of the fire. His eyes were intent, his brow slightly creased—and he was quite obviously reading the page.

I control your funds. I don't control you. And I think, Mr. Harte, that had you all the money in the world, or sat penniless in a gutter, I still would not find you very likable.

When God says, "Wait," we can control only two things: how we wait, and who we become along the way.

The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

It's possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn't make them good.

The man's name tag read SLY LILYHANDS

Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes.

If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.

that was Evelyn's weakness. She was too kind, and too truthful. Both, I have found, are inconvenient character traits.