Quotes About Character

Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the power to accept anything and move on.

When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.

He has dark eyes, thick eyebrows, and battered features. His nose has definitely been broken, probably a couple of times, and he's missing a piece of his ear, as if someone took a bite out of it. There's a story there, no doubt. I like that about his face. That it's a road map of been there, done that. It's interesting.

Oh, wait till you meet this guy. Ever watch that show? The medical drama? ER? No, the one with more sex. Grey's Anatomy?

The world says, "Push to the front of the line!" Jesus says, "Go to the back of the line." The world says, "Brand yourself and blast your accomplishments all over social media!" Jesus says, "If you want to be great you have to first learn to serve.

with Kurt Striker. He was just too damn male for his own good. Or her own. He'd

Because it's a person

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

It doesn't matter who she is, it matters who you are.

Lisa Scottoline

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

The Four Virtues--virtue, demeanor, speech, and work.

Baba was a worrier—typical for someone born in the year of the rabbit.

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions—what we do—that we are happy or the reverse…. All human happiness and misery take the form of action. —ARISTOTLE Writing

We all learn, whether consciously or not, that the default interpretation of behavior reflects a character's state of mind, and every fictional story that we read reinforces our tendency to make that kind of interpretation first.

Like Martin Luther King Jr., Frankie dreamed of living in a nation where people would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. The sonner she realized that dream, the sooner she could get started on Katy Perry's and live the teenage one.

People are most radiant when they let their inner beauty shine through.

As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, "The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman."1

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

There are heroes and heroes. I don't deny he's acted bravely on occasion. He's fought beside Lord Gwydion and been proud of himself as a chick wearing eagle's feathers. But that's only one kind of bravery. Has the darling robin ever scratched for his own worms? That's bravery of another sort. And between the two, dear Orwen, he might find the latter shows the greater courage.