Quotes About Character

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see.

A myth is a hypothesis about the personality of reality itself and not the personalities of individual persons, character types, or nations.

If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The man's the gowd for a' that.

A prince can mak a belted knight,A marquis, duke, and a' that;But an honest man's aboon his might,Guid faith, he mauna fa' that.

On ev'ry hand it will allow'd be,He's just—nae better than he should be.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!

I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Honesty in small things is not a small thing.

Robert C. Martin

Stalin was not temperamentally well constituted for success as an organizer and administrator.

Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals.

the goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your mind and character—the first transformation on the way to mastery. You

Una mujer fácil de obtener no puede valer gran cosa.

In the work environment the stakes are suddenly raised. People are no longer struggling for good grades or social approval, but for survival. Under such pressure, they reveal qualities of their characters that they normally try to conceal. They manipulate, compete, and think of themselves first. We are blindsided by this behavior and our emotions are churned up even more than before, locking us into the Naïve Perspective.

So often we think that power has changed people, when in fact it simply reveals more of who they are.

the goal of an apprenticeship is not money, a good position, a title, or a diploma, but rather the transformation of your mind and character—the first transformation on the way to mastery.

The character you seem to have been born with is not necessarily who you are… The Promethean task of the powerful is to remake yourself into a character of power. Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you in essence an artist - an artist creating yourself.