Quotes About Character

Being a leader of even the smallest group gives you something to live up to: people are watching you, judging you, depending on you. To lose your composure would make it hard for you to live with yourself.

In truth, the use of honesty is indeed a power strategy, intended to convince people of one's noble, good-hearted, selfless character. It is a form of persuasion, even a subtle form of coercion.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

There is nothing more calculated to expose a person's true character than enforced proximity

It is in the nature of things that not all politicians can achieve greatness.

Cato was always the perfect Stoic, as long as nothing went wrong.

the difference between how a person treats the powerless versus the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't—if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes—then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.

Respect is a thing earned and not demanded, Perrin Aybara.

It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn't all right to let them make you like they are.

You are a fine judge of character, child. You must have done well as the Wisdom of your village. It was Laras who went to Sheriam and demanded to know how long you three are to be kept to the dirtiest and hardest work, without a turn at lighter. She said she would not be a party to breaking any woman's health or spirit, no matter what I said. A fine judge of character, child.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken. But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

Leaders in stories never had to put up with this sort of thing.

Boy, the Creator never made the Houses. Some forget it, but go far enough back in any House, and you'll find a commoner who showed uncommon courage or kept his head and took charge when everybody else was running around like plucked geese. Mind you, another thing some like to forget is the road down can be just as sudden.

No todas las personas podían ser igualmente valientes, pero la cobardía era despreciable.

Oh, very well. The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

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Lead by example. Require strength, but first show it.

A man, he'll cheat you—but he'll do it honestly.

She had a temper like a boar caught in briars at the best," Birgitte said softly to no one in particular. "Not at all like anyone close by.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken." Nynaeve paused, and added half to herself, "But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

You are well muscled for such a short man, Matrim Cauthon.