Quotes About Character

Some businessmen make deals even if the date of the deal coincides with funeral of their mothers. I like this kind of business people

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus)

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Eu não espero que os adversários da verdade confessem que se enganaram. Uma atitude como essa só é possível às almas mais elevadas.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.

Whether the world be good or evil I cannot say, but I am certain that it is men like Bazin who make it a better place. For, in believing life to be good and behaving accordingly, André had a beneficial effect on all who came in contact with him, and one could count on the fingers of one hand those who behaved badly toward him.

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Tú puedes elegir hoy mismo, como lo hace tu cerebro, reconocer cuáles son las áreas muertas de tu carácter y determinar que, a partir de hoy, cueste lo que cueste y lleve el tiempo que lleve, vas a encontrar una nueva ruta para llegar a tus metas. Tú puedes hacerlo. Fuiste creado para conquistar la tierra, no para ser arrasado por tus circunstancias.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.

one cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.

Fai attenzione ai tuoi pensieri, diventano parole. Fai attenzione alle tue parole, diventano azioni. Fai attenzione alle tue azioni, diventano abitudini. Fai attenzione alle tue abitudini, diventano carattere. Fai attenzioni al tuo carattere, diventa il tuo destino.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

Clothes make the man

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.