Quotes About Character

Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

The powerless are sometimes only good because they are not strong enough to be evil

It's not about being able to do something, Rocco. It's not even about thinking about doing it. It's not even about being tempted to go too far. [...] It's about deciding not to do it. It's about being tempted but not giving in. It isn't our abilities that make us evil, Sergeant, it's giving in to them.

What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

Because if someone is determined to do something evil there's really no stopping them. It's not the music they listen to, in the television or movies they watch, or video games they play, or even the books they read.

There was something a little frightening about a man who knew he was not a nice person and didn't give a damn. It went against everything America holds dear.

never mistake kindness for weakness, Asher. It's not the same thing.

You look like a B-movie Dracula.' - Anita to Aubrey Guilty Pleasures

There are some things that are more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror. I gave up my gun for the same reason I'd stopped for the child. There was no choice. I was one of the good guys. Good guys were self-sacrificing. It was a rule somewhere.

First I have to accept the fact that you're kindhearted, now I have to accept the fact that you're insightful as well. I knew you were powerful, ruthless, and pretty, but that you have a mind and a heart besides is going to take some getting used to.

It takes a truly good person to gain power, strength, and mystical abilities and not misuse them.

Strong Phillip, able to lift overweight nymphomaniacs with both hands. Harvey

Love is supposed to ennoble the soul, not degrade it.

He would be the kind of friend he wished he had, and so perhaps become worthy of having such a friend himself.

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.

This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

Sometimes being an adult means doing the right thing, even if it's not what you want.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting.