Quotes About Character

Handsome is as handsome does

Good day, said the Scarecrow, in a rather husky voice.

If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them.

I think you are a very good tiger, said Dorothy, patting the huge head of the beast. In that you are mistaken, was the reply. I am a good beast, perhaps, but a disgracefully bad tiger. For it is the nature of tigers to be cruel and ferocious, and in refusing to eat harmless living creatures I am acting as no good tiger has ever before acted. That is why I left the forest and joined my friend the Cowardly Lion.

The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good. L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910

But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.

To be just like other persons is small credit to one, while to be unlike others is a mark of distinction.

Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God.

It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.

People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

What indicates a person's weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

If a man needs a religion to conduct himself properly in this world, it is a sign that he has either a limited mind or a corrupt heart.