Quotes About Character

Al fin y al cabo, un hombre es sólo lo que ha decidido hacer o no hacer.

History is like a mirror, capable of showing what a man really is

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But doing the right thing makes you strong; it builds character; it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency.

It was only in the idealistic dreams of H.G. Wells that people became nicer as they acquired wealth.

You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Jules starts to 'Jimmie' him.

You can't trust Melanie, but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie.

A dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.

What was it about the I'll kill the bitch guy that cracked our audience up so much? Simple, everyone in the theatre had seen that guy before. I had seen that guy. And when we stepped outside the theatre into the Scottsdale shopping center where the Carson Twin Cinema was located, we might see that guy again. But what really cracked us up was we had never seen that guy in a Hollywood movie.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

For often even the sad can become happy by displaying strength and firmness; they are not made happy by lightheartedness, nor by frivolity, laughing, or joking, which is the companion of shallowness.

No sooner said than done—so acts your man of worth.

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Outward perfection without inward goodness sets but the blacker dye on the mind?s deformity.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.