Quotes About Character

We will all be known for a lifetime of polite, professional behavior or a few lapses in judgement and decorum.

Who we are is a tribute to those who have left us a legacy. Who we help others become will be our legacy.

Leadership is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you're not.

As Martin Luther King Jr. said in his "I Have a Dream" speech, whose fiftieth anniversary has now passed, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."1 King's dream failed that night in Florida when Zimmerman decided to follow Martin because of the color of his skin.

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character. In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And

o Sujo: o que aceita as más palavras e pensamentos da gente, e que completa tudo em obra;

Para a gente se transformar em ruim ou em valentão, ah basta se olhar um minutinho no espelho – caprichando de fazer cara de valentia, ou cara de ruindade.

Naquele lugar existia uma mulher, por nome Maria Mutema, pessoa igual às outras, sem nenhuma diversidade.

O que demasia na gente é a força feia do sofrimento, própria, não é a qualidade do sofrente.

Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.

You don't have to be famous of rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person

A world without a sense of direction, a people without a conscious commitment to reason and rightness, to quality of life and character of purpose, shape both the culture of the nation and the ongoing dedication to life by the souls that guide it. Only then can we know if what we leave behind can possibly spur commitment to creation rather than commitment to the detritus of our so-called profit-making.

We don't change as we get older - we just get to be ore of what we've always been.

It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person.

We don't change as we get older—we just get to be more of what we've always been.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

I have come to see that mental states are also ecosystems. These sometimes friendly and at times hazardous terrains are natural environments embedded in the greater system of our character.

She wasn't nice. She was rarely polite. And no one who knew her well would have called her a generous woman.

Human beings had been created with a free will that made them choose to be one of the good guys or one of the bad guys. These days, unfortunately, more and more people seemed to be taking the low road.

Show me who you are friends with, and I will tell you who you are.

And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again. She is the protagonist of a Love Story.