Quotes About Character

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

Never confuse leadership with popularity.'158

Great men are seldom nice men.

This is the usual way in which the State Department, without taking the least responsibility for the outcome, makes comments of an entirely unhelpful character in a spirit of complete detachment.'82

To understand a man,' Napoleon once said, 'look at the world when he was twenty.

Never confuse leadership with popularity.

Though he was eighteen months younger than Joseph, Napoleon was always stronger-willed.)

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults,' she told him, 'and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.

Do I want his dirty money, sir?" "No such thing, my boy! The man who earns it may be disgusting; the way he does it may be corrupt; but the gold shines clean and pure!

You won't do it.' Bonhart's voice resounded in the complete silence. 'You won't do it, witcher girl. In Kaer Morhen you were taught how to kill, so you kill like a machine. Instinctively. To kill yourself you need character, strength, determination and courage. And they couldn't teach you that.

You know what, Reynart,' Geralt suddenly said. 'I also prefer you as you are now. Talking normally. Back in October you were using infuriating, moronic mannerisms.' ''Pon my word, Witcher, I'm a knight errant,' chortled Reynart de Bois-Fresnes. 'Have you forgotten? Knights always talk like morons.

And I... Why, it doesn't matter, because Essi smells of verbena, not lilac and gooseberry, doesn't have cool, electrifying skin. Essi's hair is not a black tornado of gleaming curls, Essi's eyes are gorgeous, soft, warm and cornflower blue; they don't blaze with a cold, unemotional, deep violet. Essi will fall asleep afterwards, turn her head away, open her mouth slightly, Essi will not smile in triumph. For Essi... Essi is not Yennefer.

The mind's properties, the character, feelings, thoughts. The soul. Which would confirm what most sorcerers and all priests would deny. That the soul is also matter.' 'Blasphemy!

You inspire trust," he said, "although I know what a rogue you are.

Os justos serão reconhecidos por sua modéstia.

When hit, you give a note which shows you're fashioned of pure steel, unlike these men molded from bird shit.

In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere

Come su tutte le lame di Viroleda, vi è inciso: 'Non sguainarla senza ragione, non rinfoderarla senza onore'. Ah! A Viroleda continuano a incidere questa iscrizione. Ma in tutto il mondo queste lame finiscono in mano a farabutti e a sciocchi. In tutto il mondo l'onore è sceso di prezzo, perché al giorno d'oggi è una merce difficile da vendere...

In che cosa consiste l'autentica virilità se non in una ben proporzionata miscela di classe e follia?

But am I suitable? Will I find sufficient strength of character to rid myself of my grudges against the people who took Ciri from me, cruelly beat a man who is dear to me, and packed—" "I am certain," the she-elf interrupted, "that you will find sufficient strength of character, Yennefer. I

But am I suitable? Will I find sufficient strength of character to rid myself of my grudges against the people who took Ciri from me, cruelly beat a man who is dear to me, and packed—" "I am certain," the she-elf interrupted, "that you will find sufficient strength of character, Yennefer.