Quotes About Character

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It's a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

I've found that when someone is beautiful on the outside, but spiritually dark inside, all that outer beauty is just lipstick on a pig. ~Zeke

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

you can take the man out of the evil, but can you take the evil out of the man?

I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

Heroes.... More times than not, they are humble beings: small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

The most important story we will ever write in our life is our own -- not with ink, but with our daily choices.

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

At last she said, "Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder and shot to blow them up. They're like a pack of hound dogs. They'll chase livestock, suck eggs, and lick the skillet. And steal? They'd steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

There's some things even Enlightenment won't change. If you're a son-of-a-bitch before you visit the Absolute, you'll still be a son-of-bitch after.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

You will see at precisely what moment the writer ceases to think of his character as an instrument to be manipulated and think of him as someone with whom he has fallen in love. For it is always, must always be, a matter of love.

Ä°yi bir iÅŸin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri art?k örtüÅŸmüyordu.

sürekli riske maruz kalmak, karakter duygunuzu iyice a??nd?r?r. Ortalamaya doÄŸru regresyon eÄŸilimini yenebilecek hiçbir anlat? yoktur; insan her defas?nda 'baÅŸtan baÅŸlar'.

Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insan?n karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlat?ya dönüÅŸmesini engelleyen ç?lg?n zaman deneyimi aras?nda bir çat??ma yaratt?.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same.

There is nothing beneath a leader.

By behaving honorably, even to people who may not deserve it, he believes you can influence them to behave more honorably than they otherwise would. This

You have to be able to roll your eyes up into your skull, down the inside of the back of your head, up your jawbone, and into the sockets again. That's how the writers wrote the character, and the producers have too much integrity to alter the conception.

Richard Turner