Quotes About Character

My father has been accused of many things, but stupidity has never, I believe, been one of them.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Cordelia thought they looked like brothers, and had the guess confirmed when the younger said, "Look, there's Father, three seats behind old Vortala. Which one's the new regent?" "The bandy-legged character in the red and blues, just sitting down to Vortala's right." Cordelia and Vorpatril exchanged a look behind their backs, and Cordelia put a finger to her lips. Vorpatril grinned and shrugged. "What's the word on him in the Service?

When true repentance occurs and lifestyles change, God can do marvelous works of restoration. Denying sin, however is not a characteristic of a repentant heart.

If they knew Patsy at all they'd know she could not stand fakes. She was a good judge of people. She knew who was real and who wasn't. If they weren't real, they weren't getting a minute of Patsy's time.

Forget being a decent man, Terence. Go for castability. Could you even play a decent man in a movie?

Don't mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness.

All creatures behave according to their nature," said Eggthoda "Find out what their nature is, and you can deal safely with them

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

He became, in that instant, pure topography: his belly a highland, tapering down to a head-hamlet, with two hard-blinking eye-ponds. Four servants rushed to his aid. He waved them off with a smile. Made

a change came about under the influence of Schleiermacher, who sought to safeguard the scientific character of theology by the introduction of a new method. The religious consciousness of man was substituted for the Word of God as the source of theology.

It wouldn't be a bad idea if there were something to distinguish good men from bad.

At the root of innumerable wrongs in our civilization is the discrepancy between word, creed and deed. It is the weakness of churches, states, parties, and persons. It gives men and institutions split personalities.

Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

My stories may seem to be the stories of men, but a check of my books will show that I have probably written the stories of more strong women than any other writer....[examples include] Miss Nesselrode of The Lonesome Gods , Ruth Macken of Bendigo Shafter , Echo Sackett of Ride the River , Em Talon of Ride the Dark Trail are some....[and] one of my favorites is Miss Jessica Trescott of Matagorda . (The Sackett Companion)

A name is what a man makes it," I

A quiet man I was, and not one to provoke a quarrel, but if set upon I would fight back. I do not say this in boasting, for it was as much a part of me as the beating of my heart. It was bred in the blood-line of those from whom I come, and I could not be other than I am.

My father had lived through wars and troubles, and it left him with a sense that nothing lasted but what a man made of himself.

Courage and bravery are words too often used, too little considered. It is one thing to speak them, another thing to live them.

He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. "I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.

It is neither size nor age that makes a man, Mr. Ryerson, but something he has inside. My son has it.