Quotes About Character

Si el amor es una capacidad del carácter maduro

Der Mensch ist gut, hat man gesagt. Nun, vielleicht ist das richtig. Doch man darf es ihm nicht zu leicht machen, dem guten Menschen. Sonst kann es plötzlich passieren, daß er schlecht wird.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Igal mehel on mõni hea omadus. Neid tuleb talle ainult näidata.

So seltsam es scheinen mag, aber alle möglichen Probleme und Unglücke in dieser Welt kommen sehr oft von Menschen mit kleiner Statur; Sie haben einen viel streitsüchtigeren und energischeren Charakter als große Menschen.

Nauda boj? raksturu.

Aliás, é engraçado como o infortúnio do mundo provém tão freqüentemente de homens baixos: são muito mais enérgicos, de gênio muito pior do que os indivíduos altos.

it is less important where one lives than how one lives.

He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds.

Whenever they come up against someone who will not stand for their arrogance, they climb down from their perch and behave," she wrote. "They respect character when they meet it, and if more people had shown firmness to Hitler's handyman Papen and his acolytes in small every day contacts, as well as in big affairs of state, the Nazi growth could have been slowed up.

This, she found, was typical of a certain kind of German. "Whenever they come up against someone who will not stand for their arrogance, they climb down from their perch and behave," she wrote.

You had to know Putzi to really dislike him. That

It is," she wrote, "an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts.

he never tired and was always patient and polite. These were his strengths. His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as "a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.

With the physique of a bank safe, he was the embodiment of quiet strength.

His genius was betrayed by lofty and indomitable traits of character which could not yield or compromise. And so his life was a tragedy of inconsequence.

adversity alone has the unique power to inspire exceptional clarity, purge any vestiges of lethargy, refocus your priorities, hone your character, and unleash your most potent forces.

Be true to yourself, to your best self.

Okay," Drake said, "I'll get my man on the job and have him up there. Anything else?" "That's all for now," Mason said. "Well, wait a minute! This rancher, Overbrook, looks like a big, good-natured, rugged individual, but I'd like to find out something about him.

I'm a librarian," she said, "employed in the San Molinas library. For various reasons, I have never married. My position gives me at once an opportunity to cultivate a taste for the best in literature, and to learn something of character. I have nothing in common with the younger set who find alcoholic stimulation the necessary prerequisite to any attempt at conversation or enjoyment.

he did not believe in philanthropy, thinking that the ultimate purpose of life was to develop character; that the more a person came to depend on outside assistance, the more his character was weakened.

Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.

neurosis as a problem of character and have seen that it can be approached in two ways: as a problem of too much narrowness toward the world or of too much openness.