Quotes About Character

If but a small part of Mme. Curie's strength of character and devotion were alive in Europe's intellectuals, Europe would face a brighter future.

Se as pessoas são boas só porque temem a punição, e esperam a recompensa, então nós somos mesmo uns pobres coitados.

Das gute Beispiel ist nicht eine Möglichkeit, andere Menschen zu beeinflussen, es ist die Einzige.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character

The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value

the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

You are still a person who completed a perfect project, but never a good person for doing so." "How, then, do I become an incompetent or bad person?" "You don't! When you do incompetent or evil acts, you become a person who acted badly—never a bad person.

I'd rather be myself, he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

I'm not denying their kindness," said the Rani. "But after all kindness isn't the only virtue.

The best that can be said for ritualistic legalism is that it improves conduct. It does little, however, to alter character and nothing of itself to modify consciousness.

When in doubt, always act on the assumption that people are more honorable than you have any solid reason for supposing they are.

After all, what is an individual?

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly." "A

good she had been. Not nice, not merely molto simpatico – how charmingly and effectively these foreign tags assist one in calling a spade by some other name! – but good. You felt the active radiance of her goodness when you were near her…. And that feeling, was that less real and valid than two plus two?

What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves.

I'd rather be myself...Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Cuanto mayores son los talentos de un hombre más grande es su poder de corromper a los demás.

To know a person's character you must at least have talked with him, and unless you are gifted with remarkable intuitive insight you are not likely to know much about him unless you have seen him living and acting over a considerable period of time.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Neka pironska ravnodušnost, ublažena postojanom blagoš?u i dobrotom te povremenim proplamsajima snažne tjelesne srasti, bila je njegovo normalno stanje, koje su mu bile odredile njegova uro?ena i navikom ste?ena narav.