Quotes About Character

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Your "Gloria" lives within you.

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.

Given the character, the mentality, the history of the people of the United States, Roosevelt actually did some wonderful things, and some of his countrymen have never forgiven him for doing them.

When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place. Visitors and even natives rarely use the words urban character or environmental style, but that is what they are reacting to with awe in the presence of massed, concentrated, steel, stone, power and life.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

Doing the right thing is often a lonely road

The strength of a nation is derived from the character, not from the wealth, nor from the multitude of its people.

Who you are should be a question of what you value, not what you believe.

En cuestiones de estilo, nade con la corriente", dicen que aconsejaba Thomas Jefferson, pero "en cuestiones de principios, sea sólido como una roca",

When we shift our emphasis from behavior to character, people evaluate choices differently. Instead of asking whether this behavior will achieve the results they want, they take action because it is the right thing to do. In the poignant words of one Holocaust rescuer, "It's like saving somebody who is drowning. You don't ask them what God they pray too. You just go and save them.

For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

Acts of heroism are easy—becoming a hero is a bitch.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.