Quotes About Character

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not the circumstances.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.

Mrs. Twit wasn't born ugly. She'd had quite a nice face when she was young. The ugliness had grown upon her year by year as she got older.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. If you're kind, that's it.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

If anybody didn't have a Messiah complex, it was Jesus.

Instead of speculating about the end times and writing terrible novels about people being left behind and preaching ridiculous sermons connecting Iran to the book of Daniel, it's better if people agree that we aren't going to worry about what we can't control and we are going to become far more intentional about what we can control—loving our neighbor, becoming people of character and integrity, taking better care of the earth.

Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality [Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself].

MR. CALHOUN.   Never, never. MR. WEBSTER.   What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN.   Always, always. MR. WEBSTER.   And I honor him for it.

Telling the truth is not a magic formula for having a smooth life. But living a life of integrity is actually easier than living one built around deceit and distortion.

These aspects of masculinity include strength, discipline, courage, passion, persistence, and integrity.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better — and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.

A boy who gets a C- in 'Appreciation of Television' can't be all bad.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

A man who bets on greed an dishonesty won't be wrong too often.

I hope he's just a scoundrel . . . because a saint can stir up ten times as much mischief as a scoundrel.

I told you when you hired him that—" "When I hired him?" "Don't interrupt. —that any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.

If I've reached the place where I'm a good influence on anybody, it's time I cultivated some new vices.

Any man who would take money two ways would take it three ways just as quickly.