Quotes About Character

I had the chance to meet an extraordinary personality, one of those beings who cross History determined to leave their imprint on the generations to come.

Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.

Coolidge weighed only 119.5 pounds, below the class average, despite a height that was slightly more than average, 68.9 inches.

There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.

Julian] was reckoned the reincarnation of Titus the son of Vespasian, in the glorious outcome of his campaigns very like Trajan, as merciful as Antoninus, and in his striving after truth and perfection the equal of Marcus Aurelius, on whom he endeavoured to model his own actions and character.

Hamartia (n.) The flaw that precipitates the destruction of a tragic hero. Hamartia is a noble word, with a fine history (the OED says also that it refers particularly to Aristotle's Poetics). If you have any decency or soul, please do not use this word to refer to your own weakness for something such as chocolate. also

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

Our ideals are our better selves.

He] was what people called a man's man. He fixed things and he had a deep laugh. He looked like he could carry you out of a burning building and he looked like the kind of man who would go back in to get your poodle. And even though he made fun of his own looks [...], I liked his face.

Florence saw childhood as something fleeting to be enjoyed. I saw childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for future.

I saw in her more potential, more character, than her mother allowed.

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words.

It takes a truly great man to see that he's been wrong and to apologize for it, even in the face of the obvious.

There's Tom, Dick, That Guy Over There, and Some Other Asshole—that's not the point.

Dex was buckets full of awesome—he was allowed to have a redneck family member who wore his ass for a hat.

Crick may have made a mess, sir, but he also made a promise. There's not a dishonorable bone in that boy's body.

Cheever bit his lip. God, if nothing else, he was getting an education as to what made Mackey James Sanders such an undeniable force in the universe.

Through the years, I've never met an emotionally mature man or woman of God who has not traveled through a period of great suffering. With God as our touchstone, suffering builds hope and humility. I've learned that each human being must sooner or later decide if they want to be cool or deep. I'm putting my money on deep.4

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

dolls have no identity