Quotes About Character

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT: WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.

Our character is revealed under pressure.

It wasn't like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him.

Even intelligent and wise men are ruined after some time, if they remain in the company of immoral, sinful, wicked or cruel-natured persons. Such persons are like a coal mine where everything turns black. You must avoid friendship with such persons. In Chanakya's opinion, only the intelligent and wise person will suffer in such a relationship.

Chanakya wanted to establish a society which laid greater stress on spiritual satisfaction rather than on physical pleasures. According to him, for the development of inner strength and character, spiritual development was necessary.

By preaching foolish pupils, looking after a wicked woman or keeping company of worried persons, even scholars will suffer. Therefore, foolish persons should never be encouraged to undertake any good deed. One must stay away from a characterless woman, otherwise his image will be tarnished. Similarly, an unhappy person can never give happiness, so stay away from him.

to test the purity of gold, it is heated at high temperature; it is tapped, hammered and cut. That gives it the glitter. Similarly, an honest person is tested for purity by his acts of donation, good deeds, virtuosity, sacrifice and behaviour. Any person, who possesses all these qualities, glitters like gold.

According to him, for the development of inner strength and character, spiritual development was necessary.

Knowledgeable persons are able to eliminate ignorance through their knowledge, so they must build the character of their children. They must develop their talents through proper education and devotion. This will make their inbuilt talents worthy of worship and respect.

A man's wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offence' (Prov. 19:11).

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology. You can assume he meant that now we all expect to understand the motivation behind each character's actions, as if that's possible, as if life works that way. I've read so many recent novels, particularly those published in the Anglo world, that are dull and trite because I'm always supposed to infer causality.

Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

Jest dobrym cz?owiekiem, wi?c mo?e ?atwiej zniesie kontemplowanie swojego ?ycia, ni? ja bym to znios?a. Bo moja dobro?, je?li istnieje, to tylko w tym, co robi?, a nie we mnie samej.

If a man had a nasty side to his character, she wanted to get to it immediately and confront it. She didn't want it roaming unseen in the hinterland of the relationship: she wanted to provoke it, to draw it forth, lest it strike her when her back was turned.

the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal. Those lines concerned the art of writing, but looking around himself in early middle age my neighbour began to see that they applied just as much to the art of living.

I said that I thought most of us didn't know how truly good or truly bad we were, and most of us would never be sufficiently tested to find out.

the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.